Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2022-Oct-19

Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2022-Oct-19

[Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran]

Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2022-Oct-19

Members Attending
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-Aaron
-Bruce
-Hemant
-Honnappa
-Jerin (Chair)
-Kevin
-Stephen
-Thomas

NOTE: The technical board meetings every second Wednesday at https://meet.jit.si/DPDK at 3 pm UTC.
Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend.
 
NOTE: Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2022-Nov-2 @3pm UTC, and will be chaired by Kevin


License exception for GVE code from kernel (under MIT license)
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1) TB approved license exception for GVE code from kernel.
2) TB decided to have the following proposal for new MIT license code in DPDK
a) GB approval not required for MIT license.
b) Only TB approval is needed for the MIT license.
c) Nathan to work with LF/GB to update the DPDK web page for the same.
d) Bruce and Nathan to work with exact wording to propose to GB


LFX metric tool update version request
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1) Nathan requested to update LFX tool to capture git commit stats for contribution per release.
2) TB approved the use of the updated version.

Updates on Techwritter hiring
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1) Nathan provided an update of Techwritter hiring.
2) Two candidates profile in consideration and plan to start the interview process ASAP.

GB meeting minutes
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1) Honnapa raised the concern that GB meeting minutes needs to have dedicate section in dpdk.org website
2) Nathan to work with LF to enable the same.

VDEV aliases removal
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1) TB decided to not remove the VDEV aliases.
2) Bruce proposed two approaches to handle common code without affecting user experience. TB decided
to have further discussion on the mailing-list for the same.

Third party library integration
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1) uadk library does not have a pkgconfig scheme to integrate a third party library with DPDK.
2) TB decided to have some sort of dynamic scheme to detect the presence of the library and its cflags and ldflags
to enable seamless integration with DPDK without updating meson configure options.
All new libraries should provide such a dynamic scheme to integrate with DPDK for now on.

rte_flow specification cleanup
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1) Protocol definitions are duplicated in lib/net/ and rte_flow header files.
2) There is a deprecation notice to remove the duplication.
3) Thomas is working on this. We may have VXLAN, GRE, ARP header file duplication removal for this release.
More details like "what to remove" and "which release to add" etc to be discussed in mailing-list

Security perf application inclusion
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1) Like app/test-flow-perf/, There is request to include performance test application exclusively measuring
the session creation performance.
a) TB approved the application.
b) There was question on using the common code between different test application, TB decided to use a
scheme where source code can be in one application and other applications can include source via meson build option,
rather than duplicating the code without creating new libraries.