[dpdk-dev] DPDK Windows Community call - 04 April 2019

[Ranjit Menon]

Attendees:
Thomas (thomas at monjalon.net)
Eilon (eilong at mellanox.com)
Raslan (rasland at mellanox.com)
Harini (harini.ramakrishnan at microsoft.com)
Bruce (bruce.richardson at intel.com)
Cathal (cathal.ohare at intel.com)
Anand (anand.rawat at intel.com)
Pallavi (pallavi.kadam at intel.com)
Ranjit (ranjit.menon at intel.com)

Minutes:
* Attendees reviewed call time and agreed to keep current time unchanged.
* Call needs to cover the following locations: Ireland, US west coast, 
Israel, India, France, Palestine
* It’s expected that more contributor companies may join the call 
(expressions of interest made)
* The current release (19.05) common files are now frozen in RC1.
  - Early development and owned area files may have changes in RC2 or RC3
  - However 19.08 will be stricter, in keeping changes to RC1.
* For Windows dev, next big step is to work on PCI / Kernel module.
  - meson not required for kernel builds
  - msbuild is fine, needs WDK for kernel builds in Windows
  - Mellanox supports bus/pci port should be our next target
  - Intel has latest bus/pci updates available in windows draft repo
  - Changes are based on 18.08 (so need to rebase to 19.05)
* 19.08/19.11 – would bring extra libraries & 40GB (Intel) PMD for L2 
forward.
* Intel may have a need to send some PMD functionality in 19.08 and 
other functionality in 19.11.
* Thomas agrees libraries (eal) then kernel module then bus/pci then 
Intel PMD (i40e) would be an approach supported by the community in 
building up functionality.
* Microsoft – no current assignable resources, but when resources 
available, will help with port. Will look into UIO driver.

Advice for this project:
* Encourage others to use draft repo common code – to align on licenses 
and meson/msbuild building
* Need to rebase to 19.05  from 18.08 (this needs to be solved first)
* We need to make clear the status of the work on windows
   - publish a roadmap on dpdk.org for 19.08 & 19.11.
* We need to be clear on draft repo usage, naming, branching etc.
   - Also maintain history.
   - Always send patches to the draft repo.
   - Send when ready send to the mailing list.
   - If the patches are NOT to be merged, please add a tag to the title 
(19.08, 19.11, etc.).

* CI: The community lab support will need to be improved, need to ask 
for Windows additions to the Community lab (UNH).
* Mellanox plan to include CI for windows, target end of Q3
* rte_panic() – this is everywhere in Linux.
  - We are always working to remove rte_panic from all patches.
  - Please return error rather than exit.


Agenda for next call:
  – good to sync up on the bus/pci and general status.