Meeting minutes of 1 October 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* LTS
* OvS
Participants:
* Broadcom
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.11 dates
* -rc1 pushed to *Friday, 16 October 2020*
* -rc2: Friday, 23 October 2020
* Release: Friday, 13 November 2020
* Nvidia Mellanox, Marvell, Broadcom & Arm already sent roadmap, all
contributors please send roadmap for the release.
Subtrees
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* main
* Working on some big series
* P4 patchset from Cristian
* Waiting for a new version
* SIMD bitwidth form Ciara
* Requires more review
* Need Arm & PPC input
* Arm had some comments
* Python3 support series
* Will pull from next-net today
* Some documentation errors are missed, build system hiding them
* Bruce sent a fix for build system
* Ciara's Make removal series updates many documents
* Each PMD maintainer should review/ack relevant doc change
* Decided to postpone the -rc1 one week
* A security advisory has been issued for vhost-crypto
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2020-September/000343.html
* next-net
* Some big patchsets has been merged and still has around ~150 patches
* There are still ethdev patches in backlog
* Waiting a new version of the new txgbe PMD
* A pull request prepared for early pull
* Some PMDs marked as unmaintained: liquidio, nfp & ionic
* Jerin will check the status of liquidio
* Thomas is following the nfp & ionic
* next-crypto
* Reviewed two new PMDs
* A bbdev driver (baseband/acc100) by Intel
* Tom from Red Hat also reviewing the driver
* Planning to merge it for -rc1
* A crypto driver (crypto/bcmfs) from Broadcom
* Planning to review direct crypto data-path this week
* Target is to get it for -rc1
* Patch to remove the enums is outstanding
* Looking good, planning to merge if there is no objection
* next-eventdev
* There are two new PMDs, two DLB driver versions
* DLB PMDs has dependency to eal API and eventdev spec
* Waiting for new version to address these
* Other than the dependencies PMD part is under review
* next-virtio
* Pulled yesterday
* virtio-user: introduce vhost-vdpa backend merged
* vdpa experimental tag removed
* Will check for release notes update for them
* async datapath and vectorized datapatch patches in the queue
* not sure about vectorized datapath, will review more
* Also there is one series from Arm
* There is an open issue related to the vhost-crypto
* It is broken in and since the v20.08 release
* It may not be tested well, who is testing vhost-crypto?
* Working on a solution with Fan
* next-net-intel
* Some patches merged, in progress
* next-net-mlx
* Not much for now, there will be more before -rc1
* Mellanox pushing a lot ethdev changes targets -rc1
* This may result more driver patches for -rc2
* There are some driver patches depends to ethdev patches in the queue
* next-net-mrvl
* Most of the patches merged for -rc1 and pulled
* next-net-brcm
* Some patches merged, some are waiting for merge
* Ajit will support ethdev reviews
LTS
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* 18.11.10 is released
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2020-September/000345.html
* This is regular release including security issues
* There will be one last release
* Trying to get all patches backported
* 19.11.5 is released
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2020-September/000345.html
* This is a security release for vhost-crypto issues
OvS
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* There was a community call yesterday
* Target is to clean the patchwork backlog
* Volunteers from different companies will meet weekly for this
* Planning to spend a few months for the cleanup
* OvS is important to DPDK
* We would like to see the features added to DPDK enabled more by OvS
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.
