Minutes 2 April 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Opens
Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Mellanox
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.05 dates:
* Integration/Merge/RC1: Friday 17 April 2020
* Release: Wednesday 20 May 2020
* Marvell, Arm, Mellanox & Broadcom already sent roadmap for 20.05, all
vendors please share the roadmap for the release.
Subtrees
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* main
* Reviewing trace series
* Maybe merge crypto tree, next net will be merged after it
* Call for review:
http://inbox.dpdk.org/announce/10038126.3WhfQktd6Z@xps/T/#u
* A prioritization done on that list:
* Mandatory ones:
* gcc 10 support
* When DPDK 20.05 released, gcc10 will be default compiler for some
distros
* internal symbol marking
* NXP will help making the patch
* basic memory management for Windows
* Expected to be merged in next a few weeks
* High
* cleanup more resources on shutdown
* fixes and tests for rte_security
* nodes graph as packet processing pipeline
* telemetry rework
* tracepoints compatible with LTTng
* It is a useful feature, but affect a lot of parties,
more review required
* Please support by reviewing patches in this list (and more)
* next-net
* Pulled from sub-trees and some patches merged
* It is progressing, there are ~100 patches in backlog
* There is a few big series and a new igc PMD
* next-crypto
* No patches merged this week
* Test for security API under review
* bbdev, there were two patchset, one reviewed other in queue
* next-eventdev
* Merging patches this week
* next-virtio
* Maxime is off this week
* Packed ring patches are under review
* vhost example to use vhost PMD is under review
* Using DMA engine in vhost example, after discussion it will be moved
to library
* next-net-intel
* Merged some shared code updates
* Merged DCF
* Several flow related patches merged
* Maintainers are actively reviewing
* next-net-mlx
* More patches to come, some RFC sent as text, working to make everything
ready for -rc1
* LTS
* 18.11.7-rc1 is out, please test
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20200320193403.18959-1-ktray...@redhat.com/
* Red Hat & Intel sent test reports
* Release planned for 14 April
Opens
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* Here comes DPDKoin. DPDKoin is a DPDK PMD, which instead of moving
packets, mines cryptocurrencies.
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20200401131044.7259-1-mcr...@redhat.com/#t
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.
