TB Members Attending: 7/11 -------------------------- - Bruce - Thomas - Kevin - Konstantin - Morten - Jerin - Maxime
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 The next meeting will happen on October 15 Agenda ------ * LTS Maintainers, - Project is currently short of LTS Maintainers. - Enquiries are ongoing to find additional maintainers. - Volunteers are welcome - Mentoring and support from existing maintainers is available for new maintainers * Use of FAST_FREE and multi-buffer/scattered mbuf flags - The flags for enabling fast-free and supporting multi-mbuf packets are now documented incompatible - Previously they were not defined as incompatible, but that seems to have been assumed for some usages. - Techboard discussed how best to resolve this incompatibility with regards to: - ensuring correctness - avoiding major churn to DPDK code - avoiding churn to end-user code - Options discussed: 1 change definition back to not have the settings incompatible: this necessitates checking drivers for correctness 2 keep as explicitly incompatible and report error if both specified: this could break end-user apps, and requires changes to example apps 3 drop the fast-free flag if multi-segment mbufs are also specified: "hides" the issue, but probably minimises changes. Would need to decide whether the dropping of flag done in drivers vs ethdev level. Pros and cons to both options. Needs clear documenting. - No firm decision reached, will discuss more over email. Recurring item list Discussion ------------------------------ TB reviewed our standard list of recurring items for updates. * Examples to remove: - it was noted that work is being done on DCB functionality, and separating it from VMDQ. - follow up with patch author (as presumed knowledgable in this area) as to whether we need to keep both vmdq and vmdq+dcb sample apps. * Doc Maintenance: - Project had employed a technical writer to help cleanup docs, but this contract has now finished - Most output patches from the contract have been merged but there is at least one set that needs futher update - Discussed use of AI for documentation updates - for mechanical updates AI may be of help - skepticism of usefulness beyond that * Community Lab: - Patrick provided a short update on lab work: - DTS Development ongoing - Team at UNH has produced some new introductory videos on setting up and using DTS. - Process has just started on planning for lab priorities for 2026, in order to have that in place for end-of-year.
