On 05/15/2018 07:18 AM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tag/?id=v18.05-rc3
The release notes should be complete now:
http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.html
What's new in -rc3?
- proper runtime directory
- consistent checks in offload API
- compressdev API
- Intel compressdev software driver
- eventdev crypto adapter
- NXP devices blacklisting
- DPAA2 QDMA raw driver
- DPAA2 Command Interface raw driver
- Intel FPGA bus
- BPF
Some planned features are postponed to 18.08:
- Hyper-V bus and NetVSC driver
- TAP TSO
- testpmd simulation of noisy host
It is a big release candidate (322 patches),
but next one is expected to include only some bug fixes,
tooling or documentation updates.
Everybody is tired by this release which lasts too long.
So let's try to minimize new risks in order to close it soon.
I appreciate my first series around buildability of dpdk under gcc8 got
in, thanks for the support and assistance.
The series "GCC8 fixes against lagopus" fixes dpdk api headers so you
can actually build things against dpdk with gcc 8. Today then dpdk
itself builds cleanly under gcc 8, but when you try to build another app
against it with the same compiler, that app can't build cleanly due to
problems specifically in dpdk exported api headers. These don't show up
during dpdk build but when you actually try to use it.
I understand this stuff is really busy and difficult to manage, life
will go on for me if it gets in later, although you can't build eg
lagopus with gcc8 as it is. Lagopus has its own problems with gcc 8 but
today they target 18.02 dpdk. It will be helpful to them and others if
they can target unchanged 18.05 dpdk tag in their dpdk submodule and
then only need patches on their side (which I am preparing) for a clean
gcc8 experience.
-Andy
We can target to make -rc4, -rc5 and finally release on 25th of May.
As usual, please test this release candidate as much as you can,
and check for possible behaviour or performance regressions.
There are some open bugs to check in bugzilla:
https://dpdk.org/tracker/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CONFIRMED&bug_status=IN_PROGRESS&product=DPDK
Thank you everyone
