Update OVS CLI and relevant documentation to use DPDK 20.11.6.

A bug was introduced in DPDK 20.11.5 by the commit
33f2e3756186 ("vhost: fix unsafe vring addresses modifications").
This bug can cause a deadlock when vIOMMU is enabled
and NUMA reallocation of the virtqueues happen.
A fix [1] has been posted and pushed to the DPDK 20.11 branch.
If a user wishes to avoid the issue then it is recommended to use
DPDK 20.11.4 until the release of DPDK 20.11.7.
It should be noted that DPDK 20.11.4 does not benefit from
the numerous bug fixes addressed since its release.
If a user wishes to benefit from these fixes it is recommended
to use DPDK 20.11.6.

[1] 
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/
Signed-off-by: Michael Phelan <[email protected]>

---
v3:
  - Update recommended meson version.
  - Refactor commit message.

v2:
  - Update recommended DPDK version for older OvS versions in Documentation.

---
---
 .ci/linux-build.sh                   |  2 +-
 .ci/linux-prepare.sh                 |  2 +-
 Documentation/faq/releases.rst       |  8 ++++----
 Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst |  8 ++++----
 NEWS                                 | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.ci/linux-build.sh b/.ci/linux-build.sh
index c06e88c57..dd0a57850 100755
--- a/.ci/linux-build.sh
+++ b/.ci/linux-build.sh
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ fi
 
 if [ "$DPDK" ] || [ "$DPDK_SHARED" ]; then
     if [ -z "$DPDK_VER" ]; then
-        DPDK_VER="20.11.4"
+        DPDK_VER="20.11.6"
     fi
     install_dpdk $DPDK_VER
     if [ "$CC" = "clang" ]; then
diff --git a/.ci/linux-prepare.sh b/.ci/linux-prepare.sh
index 8d0c37d9d..26a4538c6 100755
--- a/.ci/linux-prepare.sh
+++ b/.ci/linux-prepare.sh
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ cd ..
 pip3 install --disable-pip-version-check --user wheel
 pip3 install --disable-pip-version-check --user \
     flake8 'hacking>=3.0' sphinx pyOpenSSL setuptools
-pip3 install --user  'meson==0.47.1'
+pip3 install --user  'meson==0.48.1'
 
 if [ "$M32" ]; then
     # Installing 32-bit libraries.
diff --git a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
index d62d575eb..977822984 100644
--- a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
+++ b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
@@ -205,10 +205,10 @@ Q: What DPDK version does each Open vSwitch release work 
with?
     2.10.x       17.11.10
     2.11.x       18.11.9
     2.12.x       18.11.9
-    2.13.x       19.11.10
-    2.14.x       19.11.10
-    2.15.x       20.11.4
-    2.16.x       20.11.4
+    2.13.x       19.11.13
+    2.14.x       19.11.13
+    2.15.x       20.11.6
+    2.16.x       20.11.6
     ============ ========
 
 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 9ce5285c5..8bc6043f7 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 20.11.4
+- DPDK 20.11.6
 
 - 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-20.11.4.tar.xz
-       $ tar xf dpdk-20.11.4.tar.xz
-       $ export DPDK_DIR=/usr/src/dpdk-stable-20.11.4
+       $ wget https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-20.11.6.tar.xz
+       $ tar xf dpdk-20.11.6.tar.xz
+       $ export DPDK_DIR=/usr/src/dpdk-stable-20.11.6
        $ cd $DPDK_DIR
 
 #. Configure and install DPDK using Meson
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c6b9c2ca8..578b845dd 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,21 @@
 v2.16.5 - xx xxx xxxx
 ---------------------
+   - DPDK:
+     * OVS validated with DPDK 20.11.6.
+       DPDK 20.11.6 requires a meson version of 0.48.1 or higher.
+       A bug was introduced in DPDK 20.11.5 by the commit
+       33f2e3756186 ("vhost: fix unsafe vring addresses modifications").
+       This bug can cause a deadlock when vIOMMU is enabled and NUMA
+       reallocation of the virtqueues happen.
+       A fix has been posted and pushed to the DPDK 20.11 branch.
+       It can be found here:
+       
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/.
+       If a user wishes to avoid the issue then it is recommended to use
+       DPDK 20.11.4 until the release of DPDK 20.11.7.
+       It should be noted that DPDK 20.11.4 does not benefit from the numerous
+       bug fixes addressed since its release.
+       If a user wishes to benefit from these fixes it is recommended to use
+       DPDK 20.11.6.
 
 v2.16.4 - 15 Jun 2022
 ---------------------
-- 
2.25.1

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