Minutes of DPDK Technical Board Meeting, 2025-09-17

Minutes of DPDK Technical Board Meeting, 2025-09-17

[Thomas Monjalon]

Members Attending: 9/11
	- Aaron Conole
	- Bruce Richardson
	- Hemant Agrawal
	- Jerin Jacob
	- Kevin Traynor
	- Maxime Coquelin
	- Morten Brørup
	- Stephen Hemminger
	- Thomas Monjalon (Chair)

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 1.


1/ AI-assisted code contribution guidelines

For now, no specific guideline about AI-assisted contributions.
The board does not recommend any specific tag about AI in git commits.


2/ compilation option to enable optional parts of drivers

The board has rejected the idea of a common compilation option
to enable optional parts of all drivers.

If a datapath may be accelerated by removing some features,
the recommendation is to have separate Rx/Tx functions
which can be selected at initialization.


3/ default Tx configuration in examples

It is not clear what should be the recommended default
regarding RTE_ETH_TX_OFFLOAD_MBUF_FAST_FREE and RTE_ETH_TX_OFFLOAD_MULTI_SEGS.

It is also not clear how all drivers behave regarding the fast free offload.

The board asks for clarification about drivers behaviour
when RTE_ETH_TX_OFFLOAD_MBUF_FAST_FREE is enabled.


4/ LTS releases

The maintainer for the branch 23.11 resigned.
We have 2 active maintainers for maintaining 3 LTS branches.
As a consequence, we are looking for a new maintainer.


5/ AI-assisted code review

The board discussed some code review products.

Aaron is enabling test with CodeRabbit and Sourcery in GitHub:
	https://github.com/ovsrobot/dpdk/pulls

Jerin recommends looking at Context7 as knowledge base:
	https://context7.com/dpdk/dpdk

The board agreed to test the bugbot of Cursor:
	https://cursor.com/docs/bugbot