[dpdk-dev] Fwd: [Minutes 04/15/2020] Bi-Weekly DPDK Windows Community Call

[Thomas Monjalon]

From: Harini Ramakrishnan <Harini.Ramakrishnan at microsoft.com>

Attendees: Thomas Monjalon, Ranjit Menon, Tal Shnaiderman, Pallavi Kadam, Ranjit Menon, Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile, Harini Ramakrishnan, Dmitry Kozliuk, William Tu, Tasnim Bashar


1/ UIO Driver

  *   New Intel-Microsoft DA needed to unblock licensing issues.
  *   Naty will apply fixes with Dmitry K's feedback on UIO source.
  *   After licensing headers on source files are updated, release process for build and binary to begin.
  *   [AI Harini & Ranjit] To expedite licensing agreement resolution to unblock UIO driver release.


2/ Dmitry's Patches on EAL's memory management interface, virt2phys driver

  *   Naty and Ranjit have reviewed EAL and virt2phys driver
  *   Dmitry sent v3 patches with review comments.
  *   Vitr2phys driver code integrated in kmods repo
  *   Awaiting memory management community maintainer review, Dmitry M's comments on patches
  *   Awaiting comments on impact on Linux and FreeBSD code
  *   Awaiting Dmitry M's comment on patches.
  *   [AI Dmitry K, Harini] Dmitry K to send summary of conversation for feedback, Harini to follow-up for resolution.
  *   [AI Dmitry K] To send out v4 after all reviews are addressed.


3/ PCI Probing

  *   Mellanox internally reviewing patches for PCI bus
  *   Will be send out for review in the next 2 weeks.
  *   Next step is for Intel to provides patches for specific steps needed when probing PCI devices which are bound to netuio.


4/ Opens

  *   Intel is working to get logging patch set, will be sent out for review in few weeks.
  *   [AI Harini] Need Microsoft expert allocation to drive issues for clang compiler support for Windows DPDK

        *   https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24383
        *   Harini to setup a focused conversation around prioritization of DPDK for Windows.
     *   IHVs not acknowledging Roadmap proposal will be removed from Roadmap.