Minutes 21 March 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Coverity
* Opens
Participants:
* Arm
* Debian
* Intel
* Mellanox
* RedHat
Release Dates
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* v19.05 dates, no change:
* RC1: Friday, 29 March
* Release: Friday, 10 May
* Schedule web page updated accordingly:
http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates
* v19.08 proposal:
* Proposal/V1 Monday 03 June 2019
* Integration/Merge/RC1 Monday 01 July 2019
* Release Thurs 01 August 2019
* Received a roadmap item from Rami for Huawei
* Great to see more engagement for upstreaming
Subtrees
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* main
* More patches to merge, nothing major at this point
* Features of the release to pay attention:
* Arm locking patches
* Need more review
* Intel side is doing some benchmarks, Arm observes performance increase
* Windows patches, requires three things:
* Need public roadmap
* Upstream effort, which is already happening
* Push changes into dpdk-draft-windows repo
* More eal patches to review/merge
* There will be regular merge from sub-trees at end of the week
* next-net
* nothing critical/urgent at this point
* New pmds not merged yet: af_xdp, memif, ifpga ipn3ke, netcope nfb
* All are waiting for new version,
* Should be able to merge them next week to be on time for RC1
* memif still has eal dependency
* Some stats, ethdev read_clock API, etc.. waiting, nothing major
* next-virtio
* Most of the patches has been merged, tree pulled
* Nothing major waiting for RC1
* next-crypto
* Akhil applied some patches this week
* Need to clarify if the sub-tree will be ready for merge this week
* next-eventdev
* Pulled previous week
* next-pipeline
* next-qos
* No update, we need attendance from maintainers
* Stable trees
* 16.11.9 released. This was the last 16.11 LTS release
* Thanks to Luca and all supported for the work
* 17.11.6 will be next release with 19.02 changes
* 18.08.1-rc3 is waiting for more test
* Intel test results received
* One issue reported, analyzed as not introduced in this release
* 18.08.1 release planned for next week
* 18.11-1-rc1 is out, waiting to be tested
* -rc2 will be created with a few post 19.02 critical patches
* -rc2 planned for next a few days
* 18.11.1 release planned on 8 April
* 19.02
* There is no maintainer right now
* The 19.02 short term stable tree may be dropped
* Will be discussed in next techboard meeting, on next Wednesday
* Decision will be announced
OvS (received offline)
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* Roni Bar Yani did a readout on hardware offload in OVS-DPDK using
rte_flow. Link to slides and recording here
* https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2019-March/357413.html
Coverity
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* Coverity is back on, John run a new scan with latest code:
*
https://scan.coverity.com/projects/dpdk-data-plane-development-kit?tab=overview
* 293 Outstanding defects!
* There were other tools suggested in mail list:
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-February/125006.html
* sonarcloud.io
* https://sonarcloud.io/dashboard?id=bluca_dpdk
* 215 Bugs
* lgtm.com
* https://lgtm.com/projects/g/DPDK/dpdk/alerts/?mode=list
* 211 Alerts
Opens
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* Akhil is looking for co-maintainer for crypto sub-tree,
DPDK Release Status Meetings
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The DPDK Release Status Meeting is intended for DPDK Committers to discuss
the status of the master tree and sub-trees, and for project managers to
track progress or milestone dates.
The meeting occurs on Thursdays at 8:30 UTC. If you wish to attend just
send an email to "John McNamara <john.mcnam...@intel.com>" for the invite.
