Minutes 4 June 2020 ------------------- Agenda: * Meeting * Release Dates * Subtrees * OvS
Participants: * Arm * Debian/Microsoft * Intel * Marvell * Mellanox * NXP * Red Hat Meeting ------- * It has been discussed to use different meeting infrastructure in the retrospective meeting. * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-May/168971.html * There was no update so continued with Skype on this meeting * Jitsi suggested, an update will be announced for next meeting Release Dates ------------- * v20.08 dates: * Proposal/V1: Friday, 12 June 2020 * -rc1: Wednesday, 8 July 2020 * -rc2: Monday, 20 July 2020 * Release: Tuesday, 4 August 2020 * Red Hat, Mellanox & Marvell already sent roadmap, all contributors please send roadmap for the release. Subtrees -------- * main * There is new interrupt maintainer, thanks Harman for volunteering https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/70846/ * VF Token patch can be merged soon v15: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=10272 * Kernel support in 5.6 * Should be tested * Will merge some windows patches * Like memory management wrappers, that affect all * Will plan an merge from next-net tomorrow * Roadmap update * Will send a patch to update roadmap webpage * Will update roadmap with agreed changes, like moving igb_uoi * Roadmap is missing from Intel and Arm * Call for review for two flow API changes * [RFC] add flow action context API (https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/70465/) * "Flow API sampling/mirroring action", not sent yet * next-net * Merged some patches and pulled from sub-trees * Around 50 patch majority from previous release * Enough commits accumulated for an early merge * next-crypto * No update this week, will start reviews this week * next-eventdev * A few patches waiting review * next-virtio * A few series to review, will start review * next-net-mrvl * Will start merging next week LTS --- * v19.11.3-rc1 is out, please test * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-June/169263.html * Release is planned tentatively two weeks later (17 June) * Vendors need to secure the testing resource for the LTS * v18.11.9 in progress * Halfway through the backport * Planning to have an -rc and of next week OvS --- * Validating CVE fixes * A performance drop observed in vhost, can share the result * Need to check/verify this performance drop in DPDK * Release feature deadline is beginning of the July and code freeze on mid July * Working on vxlan offload and vxlan TSO with Mellanox and Broadcom * The solution may end up being in DPDK instead of OvS * CPU instruction enablement is going on for Intel DPDK Release Status Meetings ============================ 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.
