Hi Bruce,

Thanks for the feedback!

I have checked at my end, most of our systems (Intel(R) Xeon(R), AMD EPYC)
do support sse, avx, and avx2. I was talking about general availability.
It means, newer features will not be added to the SSE path and as
you mentioned that LTS 24.11 will provide support till the end of 2027.
Applications that use ice SSE paths can benefit from it.

Best Regards,
Khadem

On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:

Hi Kadem,

can you perhaps share what systems you are using that do not have AVX2
support? Do you do new deployments with latest DPDK on those systems?
However, if it helps, we can defer this patch till after 25.11
release, so that we have one more LTS with SSE support still in it. That
would mean that we have a supported DPDK release with SSE in it until
potentially end of 2028. As it stands, even if this patch goes into the
release, 24.11 will be supported till end of 2027.

/Bruce