Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2023-August -9 Members Attending ----------------- -Aaron -Bruce -Hemant -Honnappa -Jerin (Chair) -Konstantin -Stephen -Thomas -Tyler -Morten
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 2023- August -23 @3pm UTC, and will be chaired by Honnappa Dublin DPDK submit ------------------ Collected various topics to be discussed in tech-board meeting on 11th September 2023 evening. 1) General tech-board discussion on the - Process of adding/removing tech-board members - Expected size of tech-board Do we want more people? Less? Grow the TB or expand it? - Specific individuals who wish to join or leave the TB within the next year? - Efficient ways to split the work up etc. 2) Discussion led by Aaron on the possible automation of patches in the future - pros? Cons ? Worth implementing? Best process if this route is pursued. 3) Internal review process: how to accelerate and/or improve this - more comments, addressing/responding to these comments, etc. 4) Improvements in use of lab resources by maintainers and committers - additional branches, etc. DPDK C11 atomics integration challenges ---------------------------------------- 1) Discussed various issues with C11 atomics integration like - rte_ring performance issue C11 atomics - ABI compatibility issues in public header due to atomics size differences - c++23 clang distribution issues - In general agreed to have DPDK specific prefix for better integration of atomics primitives by providing room to accommodate compiler specific differences, Tyler Retzlaff will send a RFC for the same. RFC is at https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=29255
