Minutes of DPDK Technical Board Meeting, 2024-05-29

Minutes of DPDK Technical Board Meeting, 2024-05-29

[Hemant Agrawal]

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Members Attending: 09/11

        - Aaron Conole

        - Bruce Richardson

        - Hemant Agrawal (Chair)

        - Honnappa Nagarahalli

        - Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran

        - Kevin Traynor

        - Maxime Coquelin

        - Stephen Hemminger

        - Thomas Monjalon



NOTE: The Technical Board meetings take place every second Wednesday at 3 pm UTC

on https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/96459488340?password=d808f1f6-0a28-4165-929e-5a5bcae7efeb

Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend.

Agenda and minutes can be found at http://core.dpdk.org/techboard/minutes



Next Meeting: 12-June, Chair: Honnappa Nagarahalli



1. Topics for Gov boards
-   Boring router inclusion in the project to be presented to them.

2. Status of DPDK 2024 Asia, Bangkok
     - 11 Submission as on 29th May, target is to get 25 submissions.

3.  Status of 3 initiative as discussed with Gov board.
- The Status of initiative shall be presented by the TB rep to GB.
- Open discussion was there on the following topics:
a. Hyperscale
-  Cloud Provider should run DPDK : start with testpmd and other functional tests first
-  Need help from TB members to approach them:
     - Thomas to approach AWS
     - Stephen to approach MS
     - Who will approach Google?  Can Nathan help?
     b. Security
           What shall be covered in Security?

  *   Current supported vs missing in DPDK?
  *   Confidential Computing (waiting for updates, should ping Bytedance)
  *   Protocol level Security e.g. MACsec, IPsec, TLS, PDCP etc. Many are still missing from DPDK.
  *   Security Process, Coverity?
     c. AI
          - What is in there for DPDK?
           - DPDK supports ML dev?
- w.r.t DPDK prospective, - optimizing to load training data into something like GPU devices. Or accelerating Infiband/RDMA


4. Three year LTS maintenance

     - It was voted and approved to change the LTS maintenance to 3 years.


5. Maxime wanted to add few files in DPDK, they will need license exception. Advised to send the patch to dpdk mailing list first.



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