Meeting minutes of 7 January 2021
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* LTS
* Opens
Participants:
* Arm
* Broadcom
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* Happy new year!
* v21.02 dates
* Proposal/V1 passed, it was on Sunday, 20 December 2020
* -rc1: Friday, 15 January 2021
* -rc2: Friday, 29 January 2021
* Release: Friday, 5 February 2021
* Please send roadmaps, preferably before beginning of the release
* Thanks to NTT, Huawei hns3, Intel, Red Hat, Marvell, Broadcom,
Arm, Nvidia for sending roadmap
Subtrees
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* main
* Working on patches from previous release
* Intel power management series
* Arm build series
* Suggested to discuss device emulation in the techboard
* There is a dependency to the Qemu
* Adding a lot of code, need to clarify usecase
* Not enough reviews, hoping to having more review/activity after
everyone return from holidays
* rte_flow action change RFC is out, it is a design change, please review
* http://patchwork.dpdk.org/patch/85384/
* next-net
* Some patches merged already, pulling from sub-trees
* ~160 patches in the backlog
* Planning to complete ethdev changes before -rc1
* There will be early pull to main tree this Friday
* next-crypto
* Will start merging next week
* Two sets in the queue
* enqueue & dequeue callbacks
* Will be reviewed next week
* There are some Marvell PMD patches planned for -rc1
* next-eventdev
* Very few patches, will be reviewed this weekend
* next-virtio
* Quite a few patches in the backlog
* vectorized data path, smp barriers, virtio PMD rework, ...
* reviews are going on
* Working on virtio PMD rework
* Planning to have a pull request tomorrow
* next-net-mlx
* Thomas is acting as backup maintainer
* There are big Windows enablement sets
* Will pull to next-net today
* Some features are waiting for ehtdev patches
* next-net-brcm
* Some in the backlog, no more big set/feature for this release
* next-net-intel
* Pulled, more patches expected including base code update
* i40e Windows enablement patches will go directly to main tree
* next-net-mrvl
* mvpp2 set is under review, will do second round of review on weekend
* There is octeontx endpoint PMD
* Will be merged directly to next-net
* First internal review done, Jerin will try to review
LTS
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* v19.11.6 is released
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20201218104305.3815770-1-luca.bocca...@gmail.com/
* v18.11.11-rc1 is out, please test
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20201217120304.351927-1-ktray...@redhat.com/
* Waiting for test reports, some already received
* Red Hat test result looks good
* Intel reported two issues
* One is related to kernel version, other is not new regression
* Ping (from Intel) confirmed issues can be ignored
* OvS team started to test it
* Planned release date is 19th January
Opens
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* Coverity checks are automated
* It will run tree times in a week
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.
