Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2023-September-20

Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2023-September-20

[Maxime Coquelin]

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# 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.

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