Hi Maxime,
Thanks for the heads up, is there a timeline on when 21.11.3 is expected to be 
released?

Kind regards,
Michael.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maxime Coquelin <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday 14 September 2022 14:46
> To: [email protected]; Phelan, Michael <[email protected]>;
> [email protected]
> Cc: David Marchand <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] dpdk: Use DPDK 21.11.2 release.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 9/8/22 13:15, Michael Phelan wrote:
> > CI Linux build script updated to use DPDK version 21.11.2.
> > Documentation updated to use DPDK version 21.11.2.
> > NEWS entry added for DPDK 21.11.2 validation.
> > Updated FAQ to recommend use of DPDK version 21.11.2.
> 
> For your information, we just discovered a regression in Vhost library 
> introduced
> in v21.11.2.
> 
> A deadlock happens when vIOMMU is enabled and NUMA reallocation of the
> virtqueues happen. A fix [0] was already posted by David in July and will soon
> land into DPDK main branch, so it will likely be in v21.11.3 release.
> 
> Maxime
> 
> [0]:
> http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220725203206.427083-2-
> [email protected]/
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Phelan <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >   .ci/linux-build.sh                   | 2 +-
> >   Documentation/faq/releases.rst       | 2 +-
> >   Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst | 8 ++++----
> >   NEWS                                 | 3 +++
> >   4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/.ci/linux-build.sh b/.ci/linux-build.sh index
> > 509314a07..23c8bbb7a 100755
> > --- a/.ci/linux-build.sh
> > +++ b/.ci/linux-build.sh
> > @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ fi
> >
> >   if [ "$DPDK" ] || [ "$DPDK_SHARED" ]; then
> >       if [ -z "$DPDK_VER" ]; then
> > -        DPDK_VER="21.11.1"
> > +        DPDK_VER="21.11.2"
> >       fi
> >       install_dpdk $DPDK_VER
> >   fi
> > diff --git a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
> > b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst index 1bc22a6ba..d138091c1 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
> > @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ Q: What DPDK version does each Open vSwitch
> release work with?
> >       2.15.x       20.11.4
> >       2.16.x       20.11.4
> >       2.17.x       21.11.1
> > -    3.0.x        21.11.1
> > +    3.0.x        21.11.2
> >       ============ ========
> >
> >   Q: Are all the DPDK releases that OVS versions work with maintained?
> > diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
> > b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
> > index 0f3712c79..a284e6851 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
> > @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Build requirements
> >   In addition to the requirements described in :doc:`general`, building Open
> >   vSwitch with DPDK will require the following:
> >
> > -- DPDK 21.11.1
> > +- DPDK 21.11.2
> >
> >   - A `DPDK supported NIC`_
> >
> > @@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ Install DPDK
> >   #. Download the `DPDK sources`_, extract the file and set ``DPDK_DIR``::
> >
> >          $ cd /usr/src/
> > -       $ wget https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-21.11.1.tar.xz
> > -       $ tar xf dpdk-21.11.1.tar.xz
> > -       $ export DPDK_DIR=/usr/src/dpdk-stable-21.11.1
> > +       $ wget https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-21.11.2.tar.xz
> > +       $ tar xf dpdk-21.11.2.tar.xz
> > +       $ export DPDK_DIR=/usr/src/dpdk-stable-21.11.2
> >          $ cd $DPDK_DIR
> >
> >   #. Configure and install DPDK using Meson diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> > index 53594cbbd..1fffd5e42 100644
> > --- a/NEWS
> > +++ b/NEWS
> > @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
> >   Post-v3.0.0
> >   --------------------
> > +- DPDK:
> > +     * OVS validated with DPDK 21.11.2. It is recommended to use this 
> > version
> > +       until further releases.
> >
> >
> >   v3.0.0 - 15 Aug 2022

_______________________________________________
dev mailing list
[email protected]
https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev

Reply via email to