Minutes 16 July 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* -rc1 status
* Subtrees
* LTS
* OvS
* Opens
Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Nvidia
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.08 dates:
* -rc1 is released on Sunday, 12 July 2020
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/2553672.smuk0Yhj5f@thomas/
* -rc2 pushed to *Tuesday, 21 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
* Please remember to send roadmap for 20.11.
-rc1 status
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* Intel early test result doesn't show any critical issue, tests are going on
* There is a vhost-user performance issue
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507
* Reported Red Hat report doesn't show any problem
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-July/175029.html
Subtrees
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* main
* Some patches are on review for -rc2
* C11 atomic operations
* Waiting for doc update
* Build and tool fixes
* Rest will be deferred to next release
* rte_atomic deprecation, doc part will be reviewed by Stephen
* whitelist/blacklist patchset fails on CI
* To reduce the conflicts it may be merged early 20.11
* next-net
* No ethdev library patch will be accepted after this point
* Pulled from vendor trees but there are more in their backlog
* Expecting more patches will come from vendor trees for -rc2
* intel,mlx,brcm & nxp has waiting patches
* There are driver and testpmd patches in the backlog
* There are multiple bonding patches waiting
* Xavier will support to process them
* Also there is a tap patch not reviewed
* Concern is not many fixes received targeting -rc1, they may not be ready yet
* Target to be ready on Monday, depends to vendor trees too
* next-crypto
* A couple of patches merged rest deferred
* Some patchsets deferred to next release
* Two patchsets from Intel
* multi process crypto application
* add symmetric crypto data-path APIs
* bbdev config application
* It has missing reviews
* next-eventdev
* No update
* next-virtio
* There are some patches ready, Chenbo will list them for merge
* next-net-intel
* Pulled, more patches in the queue
* next-net-mlx
* Two big patches planned for -rc2
* Tx scheduling
* eCPRI support
* Tx scheduling can be ready today, eCPRI on Sunday
LTS
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* v18.11.9 released
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-July/174424.html
OvS
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* 2.14 feature freeze is close
* It will be using DPDK 19.11.2
* Can OvS use experimental APIs?
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 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.
