# Techboard attendees - Bruce Richardson - Hemant Agrawal - Honnappa Nagarahalli - Jerin Jacob - Kevin Traynor - Konstantin Ananyev - Maxime Coquelin (Chair) - Stephen Hemminger - Thomas Monjalon # General information - Next meeting will take place on October 4th, and will be chaired by Stephen Hemminger. # Agenda - Event dispatcher library inclusion - Memarea library inclusion (Submitter not attending) - Process to add new drivers - Bugzilla maintenance: request for volunteers - Power management brainstorming # Minutes ## Event dispatcher library inclusion - Mattias Rönnblom from Ericsson presented the Event dispatcher library aims and implementation to the board, see attached slide set. - The library was initially proposed as part of the Eventdev library as a RFC in 2021. It has been moved to a dedicated library because it could support other source than Eventdev. - The goal is to decouple application modules in event-based applications. - Modules register events to the dispatcher by providing match function, callback and associated data. - The library, which is about 1.2KLoC, also comes with documentation (API, programming guide) and a test suite. - Some possible future developments are discussed, including possibility of HW offload to help the dispatching. Future developments will be discussed on the mailing list. - The technical board voted for the inclusion of this new library in DPDK repository. ## Memarea library inclusion - Topic not covered because the library author was not present. ## Process to add new drivers - During the review of the Napatech ntnic driver, some discussions arose about the driver inclusion process. - The process for driver inclusion is more relaxed than the one for libraries, but maintainers have some expectations on how the patch series should be split. - Even if it can sometimes look like a difficult task, the general idea is to have a split per feature in order to make the review process easier. - For the Napatech driver specifically, the author agreed to rework the series to follow this guideline. Ferruh will share examples of other drivers submissions doing that. ## Bugzilla maintenance: request for volunteers - Topic not covered due to lack of time. ## Power management brainstorming - Topic not covered due to lack of time.