[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 2021-09-16

[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 2021-09-16

[Mcnamara, John]

Release status meeting minutes 2021-09-16
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* ARM
* Broadcom
* Canonical
* Debian
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat


Release Dates
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* v21.11 dates
  * Proposal/V1:    Friday, 10 September (complete)
  * -rc1:           Friday, 15 October
  * Release:        Friday, 19 November


Subtrees
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* main
  * Oops/core dump handling
  * Windows: new API for thread management
  * Will review new version of DMA dev
  * New Slack channel: https://join.slack.com/t/dpdkproject/shared_invite/zt-v6c9ef5z-FqgOAS7BDAYqev_a~pbXdw

* next-net
  * Reviews and merging ongoing
  * Lot of Ethdev patches - concerning due to number and to conflicts
  * Will merge from sub-trees today

* next-net-brcm
  * Patches have been merged to subtree

* next-net-intel
  - Reviews and merging ongoing

* next-net-mlx
  - 24 patches on the list that need to reviewed merged

* next-net-mrvl
  - Some patches merged.
  - 50-60 other patches
  - Ready to merge

* next-crypto
  * Merged ~50 patches
  * Has been pulled by Thomas

* next-eventdev
  * Some patches from Intel under review with comments
  * Driver patches for cxnk
  * Changes on API hiding (for ABI stability)

* next-virtio
  * Reviewing patches and  submitted first PR
  * Maxime submitting virtio RSS feature
  * 30 Patches on list, many around Vhost async
  * Xilinx driver reviewed
  * Power management patches  under review
  * DMA Device RFC under review
    * Comments from Ilya on the OVS list that functionality may below in DPDK rather than OVS:  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/comment/2751918/


LTS
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* v19.11 (next version is v19.11.10)
  * 20.11.3 released on Monday Sept 6

  * 19.11.10 released on Monday Sept 6



* Distros
  * v20.11 in Debian 11

  * v20.11 in Ubuntu 21.04




Defects
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* Bugzilla links, 'Bugs',  added for hosted projects
  - https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/


Opens
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* Release of OpenSSL 3.0 will cause some compilation issues in cryptodev: https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2021/09/07/OpenSSL3.Final/


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.mcnamara@intel.com<mailto:john.mcnamara@intel.com>" for the invite.