Meeting minutes of 19 November 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* -rc4 status
* Subtrees
* LTS
* OvS
* Opens
Participants:
* Arm
* Broadcom
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.11 dates
* -rc4 is released on Friday, 13 November 2020
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/4017285.oMJDOflQix@thomas/
* -rc5: Friday, 20 November 2020
* Release: Wednesday, 25 November 2020
* v21.02 proposal dates, please comment before next meeting:
* Proposal/V1: Sunday, 20 December 2020
* -rc1: Friday, 15 January 2021
* Release: Friday, 5 February 2021
* Please send roadmaps, preferably before beginning of the release
-rc4 status
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* Ping (form Intel) sent the test repot
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-November/193037.html
* No new issue except testpmd failed with max-pkt-len param
* Fix patch: https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/84248/
* Please review/test
* Microsoft found some issues and possible performance degradation
* Will create Bugzilla issues for them soon
Subtrees
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* main
* Some small fixes for blacklist/whitelist set
* doc and example changes in the queue
* cppchecks fixes
* trivial fixes, can be postponed
* Not much deprecation notice in the backlog
* Can have -r5 tomorrow
* SPSK build issue fixed
* Arm compilation support from Juraj postponed to next release
* next-net
* Pulled from sub-trees, some fixes merged
* A few more fixes and deprecation notices in the queue
* next-crypto
* One patch left, waiting for review
* https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/83391/
* next-eventdev
* There are a few patches in the backlog
* Will send a pull request tomorrow
* next-virtio
* A single fix in the queue, requires a new version
* next-net-intel
* There are still some fixes in the backlog, under review
* next-net-mlx
* Planning the finalize all fixes today/tomorrow
* next-net-mrvl
* No more patch expected for the -rc
* next-net-brcm
* no update
LTS
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* Next 18.11 release will be 18.11.11
* Going fine, almost finished all patches
* At this stage lots of patches does not apply
* Next 19.11 release will be 19.11.6
* Most of the patches merged
* Some patches are waiting authors to backport
* There is a request for feature backport for PMD
* There are concerns on backporting features
OvS
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* Validating with DPDK v20.11-rc4, so far no issues
* A patch is under development for meson build
Opens
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* No update on the CVE issues
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.
