Hello Everyone,

Sorry about being so late in sending these out.

This document will always be up to date: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E2mkTHNQ5vyln1JvnJTil15cjacUTXP7LXb9K960Vxs/edit#heading=h.6k5h0aafbuyy 

Here are the minutes:

DTS Working Group Meeting Minutes for 2022

January 19, 2022

Attendees

  • Owen Hilyard

  • Lincoln Lavoie

  • Lijuan Tu

  • Juraj Linkes

  • Honnappa Nagarahalli

Agenda

  • Review/Carry forward pending action items

  • Merging DTS into DPDK

  • Review additional work items

Minutes

Review/Carry forward pending action items

  • Honnappa - Propose changes to DPDK to address changing the constants and printfs, refer to Lijuan’s email.

    • Work is started to add options for configuring the RX and TX queue sizes for L3fwd sample application

    • Looking to remove the examples/distributor from DPDK which will end up removing the corresponding test case from DTS.

  • Owen - Send out the DTS contributions guide to DTS and DPDK mailing list. 2 weeks of RFC followed by a patch.

    • Email is sent

  • Owen, Lijuan - Look for merging the makefile removal patch (http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dts/list/?series=20610)

    • No issues for CI

    • Add a depreciation warning for makefiles when run and in the release notes

  • Honnappa - Understand how the SPDX change was done for the DPDK repo

    • State of an automated solution is unknown

    • We are legally ok to change files with BSD licenses and files with no license to SPDX with BSD-3 clause

  • Honnappa - Talk to techboard about files with the GPL2 license in DTS. 

    • Work in progress

  • Owen - Take a deeper look at the license and copyright assignments for the files.

    • Completed

    • If there is a possibility of issues, a file-by-file examination would be warranted

  • Juraj - Convert the makefile build for documentation to use meson build.

    • Juraj will look at this


DTS Contribution Guide

  • Integrate suggestions from Juraj

Merging DTS into DPDK

  • Try for 22.06

  • Focus on framework and test cases used in CI

    • pf_smoke

    • vf_smoke

    • virtio_smoke

    • nic_single_core_perf

    • mtu_update

    • stats_checks

    • dynamic_config

    • dynamic_queue

    • mac_filter

    • queue_start_stop

    • scatter

    • unit_tests_mbuf

Review additional work items


Action Items

  • Honnappa - Propose changes to DPDK to address changing the constants and printfs, refer to Lijuan’s email.

  • All - Review Owen’s DTS contributions guide

  • Owen, Lijuan - Look for merging the makefile removal patch (http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dts/list/?series=20610)

  • Honnappa - Understand how the SPDX change was done for the DPDK repo

  • Honnappa - Talk to techboard about files with the GPL2 license in DTS. 

  • Juraj - Convert the makefile build for documentation to use meson build.

  • Owen - RFC for making the python version 3.6

  • Owen - Look at making DTS build using the DPDK repo it is in. 

Any other business

  • Next Meeting: January 26, 2022

  • Subject for next meeting: Focus on getting framework ready to move