Hi All,

Thank you for joining the call today. Here are my notes from the discussion.

Thanks,
Brenden

=== Discussion ===
Brenden:
* Plan to tag release to coincide with kernel 5.0

Brendan:
* Speaking this weekend at SCaLE in Los Angeles

Yonghong:
* LLVM work
* compile once - run anywhere WIP
* support for static variables

Daniel:
* Global data support work in kernel continues
* Ability to lock maps as read-only
* bugfixes after merge window

Alexei:
* Some thoughts on future work of BPF
* especially with introduction of BTF
* overall needs concerted effort to improve debuggability
* BTF for programs itself with source/type/layout information
* structures for maps and global data
* suggest to always require type information
(already turned on by default in bcc and supported by llvm)
* Some extra hoops to jump through for driver embedded BPF
* to be enabled with a sysctl
* kernel support is ready
* some long tail of support - e.g. systemd has raw assembly BPF
* kconfig option - eventual deprecation
* if kernel is default strict, llvm should automatically emit BTF as well
* memcg accounting patch status?
* Daniel - still being worked on
* proposal to enable the same accounting for verifier memory
* helps to enable verifier multithreading

Jakub:
* question regarding global data atomicity
* Daniel - requires read once / write once instructions to work properly
* some todo work on documentation, interpreter + jit implementations
* depends on architecture (machine word size guarantees only)

Jesper:
* which llvm release supports BTF
* landed in December - will be in 8.0, better in 9.0
* working on tutorial for xdp at netdev
* https://www.netdevconf.org/0x13/session.html?tutorial-XDP-hands-on
* soliciting feedback
* https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-tutorial/

Saeed:
* request to devote some time in the next meeting to iron out some XDP issues
* please send an agend in reply to the reminder email before next call
* prepare discussion over email in between time

=== Attendees ===
Alexei Starovoitov
Marco Leogrande
Mauricio Vasquez
Paul Chaignon
Brenden Blanco
Jiong Wang
Yonghong Song
Daniel Borkmann
Jesper Brouer
Quentin Monnet
Dan Siemon
Jakub Kicinski
Saeed
John
Yutaro