From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D61FBA0527; Mon, 9 Nov 2020 10:49:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2DD65AA7; Mon, 9 Nov 2020 10:49:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [63.128.21.124]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20BEB592C for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2020 10:49:11 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1604915349; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/3lU6I2RwP4gaj24QMuJfEGLbL3mrdzxjP2eU6Gc2zc=; b=iVk+7F64eyP9as0EyWcLeY/CPcK/xzeWGjqxTrbBF6S4o08NLRV64O9jvz4IgKtDhcNNDm pQdfm2R1QX52i873sIgUlG39NBds50kJRATF9egjjYCUbfX6pmJ6e2rX0BD29DWFXhu6cW NZLlBPA53MGDtFiY/locsybsSbSCtsg= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-164-oE1ql-sWPZmRvGPy4EsWqg-1; Mon, 09 Nov 2020 04:49:07 -0500 X-MC-Unique: oE1ql-sWPZmRvGPy4EsWqg-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48D21186DD23; Mon, 9 Nov 2020 09:49:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.36.113.249] (ovpn-113-249.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.113.249]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C3AD62A15; Mon, 9 Nov 2020 09:49:05 +0000 (UTC) To: "dev@dpdk.org" From: Kevin Traynor Cc: "techboard@dpdk.org" Message-ID: Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 09:49:04 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.15 Authentication-Results: relay.mimecast.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=ktraynor@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [dpdk-dev] Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2020-11-04 X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2020-11-04 Members Attending ----------------- -Bruce -Ferruh -Hemant -Honnappa -Jerin -Kevin (Chair) -Konstantin -Maxime -Olivier -Stephen -Thomas NOTE: The technical board meetings every second Wednesday in 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 2020-11-18 @3pm UTC, and will be chaired by Konstantin. Minimum meson version ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Honnappa will check details of which min version is requested/needed - No decision at present mbuf: move pool pointer into hotter first half ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Some free space in first cacheline/hotter cache - Discussed what if anything to put there - Option 1: enable API to allow request dynamic field to be there - Option 2: move pool ptr or next ptr there - Option 3: Mark as reserved in 20.11 - Decided that some optimization may be done over the next year so better not to do Option 1 as it may be deprecated soon which is confusing for users - Decided to move pool ptr to first half of cacheline BCM573xx and BCM5740xx deprecation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Hardware support is being deprecated by the vendor - Raised for awareness pmdinfogen rewrite ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Maxime checked and this is ok on RHEL/CentOS - Prefer to make this BSD licensed - Deferred until 21.02 Deprecation notice without proper replacement ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Is it ok to deprecate without a proper replacement? - No for marking API as deprecated (may impact build warnings) - Yes for documentation/comments Asia Event CFP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Thomas will send around the previous CFP - All to review and update Asks from Governing board ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Ferruh is new rep to Gov board, thanks Bruce - Slidedeck needs updates Update on DTS usability ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Waiting for feedback, more likely after 20.11 DMARC mitigation on the mailing list ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Seems that not changing the subject can resolve DMARC issues - When mitigations confirmed, techboard will decide on action, if any