Meeting minutes of 8 October 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* OvS
Participants:
* Broadcom
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.11 dates
* -rc1: Friday, 16 October 2020
* -rc2 pushed to *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
* SIMD bitwidth form Ciara
* Waiting for more comments from architecture maintainers
* Overall architecture maintainers should be cc'ed in arch
related patches.
* Patch author's responsibility to request comment from
architecture maintainers
* Working on Cristian's pipeline fix
* Some small patches will be merged today/tomorrow
* Vladimir & Konstantin's patches are cross dependent
* May get Konstantin's first to fix the dependency issue
* Thomas will review some rawdev patches
* Windows patches are not ready
* mbuf patch from Thomas to switch to dynamic fields is not ready
* This is risk for long term that mbuf is out of space
* Help requested to finish the work
* Power patches missing some responses
* Make removal doc updates should have review from all relevant PMD
maintainers
* Consensus was to get it as it is for -rc1 to not block more patches
* The series to update the terms/language are still in the backlog
* They are not passing the CI, needs attention
* next-net
* A week away from -rc1 but there are still ethdev patches in backlog
* Majority of them are from Nvidia
* rte flow shared action
* capture hardware timestamps
* flow-based traffic sampling
* Jerin did review in the past, was looking good
* hairpin between two ports
* tunnel offload API
* match on L3 fragmented packets
* Rx buffer split
* query of AGE action
* Other ethdev sets
* FEC support
* Only waiting for testpmd update, ethdev part acked
* reset and recovery events
* Under review
* offload to drop error packets
* Please help on reviews
* Waiting a rebased version of the new txgbe PMD
* next-crypto
* bbdev PMD has been merged
* Broadcom PMD final reviews are going on
* Two series are under review, planning to fish in a few days
* One is enum update
* Planning to prepare tree for end of this week
* bbdev application for -rc2
* sdap support may be postponed to -rc2
* There was a "multi process crypto application" from Arek from last release
* There is no update in this release, is it still valid?
* 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
* A few more patches, planning to complete this week
* Can send a pull request early next week
* next-virtio
* A few review are going on
* Waiting for new version of the patches
* Most of the patches are coming from PRC team which is on holiday
* If the new version of the patches does not arrive on time
all can be postponed to -rc2
* vhost-crypto issue reviews are going on
* next-net-intel
* in progress
* next-net-mlx
* in progress
* next-net-mrvl
* One or two more patches for -rc1
* next-net-brcm
* in progress
OvS
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* There is an ongoing effort in the community to speed up reviews and consume
the backlog
DPDK Release Status Meetings
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progress or milestone dates.
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If you wish to attend just send an email to
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