For the last 3 weeks we have had an 30min inter-company weekly sync on the
release status of the current DPDK release.
It is mainly intended for DPDK Committers to discuss the status of the master
and sub-trees. It is also intended as an update for project managers who need
to track progress or milestone dates.
The meeting occurs on Thursdays at 8:30 UTC. If you wish to attend just send
me and email and I will send you the invite. I will forward the minutes on a
weekly basis.
Please note in particular:
* The need for someone to manage the issues in Bugzilla
* The request for "Tested Platforms" information.
Minutes 17 May 2018 09:32
Agenda
RC4 Status
Validation
RC5
Participants:
Intel
Cavium
Mellanox
NXP
6Wind
RedHat
Debian
Canonical
RC4 Status
Status of the Subtrees
* Crypto
* About 4 patches remaining to be merged
* Next-net
* Will pull from virtio
* Also will pull from vendor subtrees
* Bug fix patches today on Intel sub-sub tree
* Thomas will continue to merge subtrees until RC5
* Thomas asked if we can we pull from subtrees more frequently
* Maintainers agreed
* All STV to test fixes on latest main
* Vhost
* Only 1 remaining patch to be reviewed/merged
* Can be merged soon
* Eventdev
* Nothing remaining to be merged
* Pipeline
* Nothing remaining to be merged
Validation status for RC4
* Intel
* No showstoppers after RC4
* Testing looking gook good
* More stable
* Mellanox
* Tracking defects
* Mainly PMD fixes
* Cavium
* Mainly driver fixes and testing
* NXP
* No major items
* Note: can all validation teams submit a Tested
Platforms section to the release notes. Like this:
http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.html#tested-platforms
GCC8
* DPDK will now compile with GCC8
* However Lagopus (and other applications) don't compile against DPDK
* Patches from Andy Green (24 patches) to address some/all of these issues
* Let's review the patches one-by-one
Issue with Clang build
* Fix submitted
Bugzilla
* We need someone to manage the open defects on Bugzilla
* Required task would be to check defects, set importance/priority, report
to this meeting once a week.
Vhost-user perf drop after CVE fixes.
* Perf drop higher than expected. 8% in vector 1-2% in other path.
* What should we do about this
* Mainly in the vector path
* Won't have time to fix in this release
* Very specific use case
* Will track in Bugzilla: https://dpdk.org/tracker/show_bug.cgi?id=48
* Will also document this as a known issue in the Release Notes
RC5+
* RC5 targeted for Monday 21 May
* RC6 for doc and critical fixes and deprecation notices
* Release date May 25th. 2018!!
