Meeting minutes of 22 October 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* -rc1 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
* -rc1 is released on Tuesday, 20 October 2020
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/1695913.Ws3t40NQoN@thomas/
* -rc2: Friday, 30 October 2020
* Release pushed to *Wednesday, 25 November 2020*
* Nvidia Mellanox, Marvell, Broadcom & Arm already sent roadmap, all
contributors please send roadmap for the release.
-rc1 status
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* Not much testing results yet, -rc1 is fresh out
* Microsoft testing may have found some issues, will report when clarified
Subtrees
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* main
* working on documentation patch for make removal
* power APIs, planning to merge them
* language updates from Stephan
* not ready, still getting CI errors
* fib6 patchset planned for -rc2
* lpm, accepted by techboard yesterday, will proceed with it
* hash, integrate RCU QSBR
* waiting confirmation from Window side
* next-net
* Most of the ethdev patches merged, including cleanups
* Two sets not able to make the -rc1 and postponed to next release
* new txgbe PMD
* Planning to merge for -rc2
* Fixes and driver updates will be merged for -rc2
* next-crypto
* ~18 patches in the backlog
* detailed review not done for enqueue callbacks on cryptodev
* May miss the release
* bbdev app is planned for -rc2
* next-eventdev
* Waiting next version of DLB
* The umwait/umonitor instructions self contained in the driver
* Dependent power library APIs for above instructions may merged
in a few days
* Will manage these based on which set merged first
* next-virtio
* Some patches reviewed and ready for merge
* Adrian's virtio-user server mode fix
* VQ metadata
* add async data path in vhost sample planned for -rc2
* next-net-intel
* More patches expected for -rc2
* next-net-mlx
* 2 patchset ready, ~40 more patches
* More patches expected for -rc2
* next-net-mrvl
* 5-10 patches expected for -rc2
* next-net-brcm
* A few fixes in the internal review, everything under control
* There is a licensing issue in one of the set, needs fixing
LTS
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* Next 18.11 release will be 18.11.11
* This will be last 18.11 release
* Working on backporting conflicted commits
* Next 19.11 release will be 19.11.6
* just started working on it
OvS
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* It is important for DPDK that OvS compiles fine with latest version of DPDK
Opens
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* There are still open coverity issues, please check them
https://scan.coverity.com/projects/dpdk-data-plane-development-kit
* Security issues
There is no update in the current ones
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.
