Meeting notes for the DPDK technical board meeting held on 2020-04-22
Attendees:
- Bruce Richardson
- Ferruh Yigit
- Hemant Agrawal
- Honnappa Nagarahalli (Chair)
- Jerin Jacob
- Kevin Traynor
- Konstantin Ananyev
- Maxime Coquelin
- Olivier Matz
- Stephen Hemminger
- Thomas Monjalon
NOTE: The technical board meetings every second Wednesday on IRC channel
#dpdk-board, at 3pm UTC. Meetings are public and DPDK community members are
welcome to attend.
NOTE: Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2020-05-06 @3pm UTC, and will be
chaired by Jerin
1) Merging app/test-flow-perf in 20.05
- This application will be kept separate from testpmd
- It is approved to be merged in 20.05
2) Timeline to stop using rte_atomicNN_xx, rte_smp_*mb APIs (other barrier
APIs, rte_*mb, rte_cio_*mb, rte_io_*mb, are allowed to be used)
- The formal deprecation of these APIs, which affects the DPDK
applications, is postponed to a later point
- It was agreed to stop accepting new code with the above APIs after
20.05 release
(subject to the availability of the patch for wrappers for C11
atomic built-ins) - AI, Honnappa
- Add a note in the release notes to indicate the same - AI, Honnappa
3) Wrappers for C11 atomic built-ins will not be available for 20.05. Patches
using C11 atomic built-ins will be accepted for 20.05
(as there is already lot of code with C11 atomic built-ins)
4) Need volunteers for maintaining C11 code
- This role is to support the maintainers with questions, help debug
issues
- It would be good to have one maintainer from each supported
architecture, volunteers are needed
- Honnappa is the maintainer from Arm
5) Ask Windows team to build and test with C11 code enabled in CI (for ex:
rte_ring) - AI, Thomas
6) Multi-function chaining APIs
- A conclusion could not be reached. The discussion/voting is still
ongoing. I will post the update once the decision is done.
Thank you,
Honnappa
