Minutes 2 July 2020 ------------------- Agenda: * Release Dates * Highlights * Subtrees * LTS
Participants: * Arm * Debian/Microsoft * Intel * Marvell * Nvidia * NXP * Red Hat Release Dates ------------- * v20.08 dates: * -rc1: Wednesday, 8 July 2020 * -rc2: Monday, 20 July 2020 * Release: Tuesday, 4 August 2020 * v20.11 proposal dates, please comment: * Proposal/V1: Wednesday, 2 September 2020 * -rc1: Wednesday, 30 September 2020 * -rc2: Friday, 16 October 2020 * Release: Friday, 6 November 2020 Highlights ---------- * We are close to -rc1 but still lots of patches in backlog waiting for review *Please help on code reviews*, missing code reviews may lead some features missing the release. Please check "call for reviews" email for the list of patches to review: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2020-June/000329.html * Please subscribe to patchwork to be able to update status of your patches, not updating them adding overhead to the maintainers. * We are observing an issue in Intel, that not receiving patchwork registration and lost password emails. * If there is anyone else outside Intel having the same problem please reach out to help analyzing the problem. * Within Intel please reach to Ferruh if there are patches their status needs update in patchwork and you don't have the access. Subtrees -------- * main * Started to merge ring and vfio patches * Would like to close following * non-EAL threads as lcore from David * rte_log registration usage improvement from Jerin * if-proxy * Stephen reviewed the patch * regex * Waiting for PMD implementations. How many PMD required for merge? * A HW and two SW PMDs were planned * Worrying that ethdev doesn't have enough review * Jerin did review on some rte flow ones * next-net * Pulled from vendor sub-trees * Some big base update patches from Intel and bnxt merged * Need to get ethdev patches before -rc1, requires more review * next-crypto * Reviewed half of the backlog * Will be good for -rc1 * cryptodev patches has been reviewed * next-eventdev * Almost ready for -rc1 * Intel DLB PMD new version still has ABI breakage * Postponed to next release because of the ABI * No controversial issues otherwise * next-virtio * Maxime did a pull request for majority of the patches * Maxime sent a status for remaining ones * 2 patches for async datapath, looks good * 2 patches for vhost-user protocol features * Has a dependency to quemu * Adrian from Red Hat will takeover the patches * Performance optimization (loops vectorization) * Waiting for new version * Not critical for this release, may be postponed if needed * Chenbo is managing the virtio patches during Maxime's absence * next-net-intel * Qi is actively merging patches * Some base code updates already merged * DCF datapath merged * next-net-mlx * Some patches already merged * Expecting more but not many * next-net-mrvl * A few patches merged * Two more patches for -rc1 * change requested for qede patches, can merge when they are ready LTS --- * v18.11.9-rc2 is out, please test * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-June/171690.html * OvS testing reported an issue * A workaround can exist for it * Nvidia reported an error * Which is not regression for 18.11.9 release * The release is planned on end of this week or early next week 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 every Thursdays at 8:30 UTC. on https://meet.jit.si/DPDK If you wish to attend just send an email to "John McNamara <john.mcnam...@intel.com>" for the invite.
