Meeting minutes of 14 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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* v21.02 dates
* -rc1 pushed to *Friday, 19 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
* Possible release dates will be discussed offline by email, taking PRC holiday
account.
Subtrees
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* main
* Intel power management series
* There is an issue, shared in the mail list
* Arm build series
* lpm SVE support for Arm platform
* devargs, global support series, didn't get enough review
* pmdinfogen Python implementation
* There is dependency, need to verify that test infrastructures won't be
affected
* Can get i40e windows patches since dependency is merged
* next-net
* Targeting to mere ethdev patches for -rc1
* There are still five of them
* One of them (Rx MTU fix) is waiting for new version
* PMDs will be merged with best effort for -rc1
* Remaining patches will be postponed to -rc2
* Pulled from sub-trees, there are still more
* And early merged to main repo
* Need a few extra days for -rc1
* next-crypto
* Reviews done, most of the will be applied today
* mlx compressdev PMD new version sent very recently
* not reviewed yet, postponed to -rc2
* enqueue & dequeue callbacks reviewed, planned for -rc1
* next-eventdev
* A patchset to refactor smp barriers is under review
* Probably for -rc2
* One or two driver patches
* DLB work postponed to next release
* next-virtio
* No more patches for -rc1
* There are two patch series need to review for -rc2
* virtio factoring for -rc2
* PIO mapping patch reviewed
* vhost roadmap
* "vhost memory tables handler refactoring" merged
* vhost async data path performance optimizations"
* Partially merged, example part is remaining
* next-net-mlx
* Windows enablement patches merged
* Common mlx driver enabled, net driver also needs to be enabled
for windows.
* next-net-brcm
* A few patches in the backlog
* next-net-intel
* Progressing
* next-net-mrvl
* mvpp2 set postponed to -rc2
* New octeontx endpoint PMD waiting for new version
LTS
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* 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, Intel send report
* Ovs, Microsoft, Nvidia reports expected today/soon
* Planned release date is 19th January
Opens
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* IF Proxy is still in the backlog
* Jerin can spare resources for it if there is community interest
* The release milestones clarification patch is out, please review
* https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/86455/
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.
