[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 26/9/2019

[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 26/9/2019

[Ferruh Yigit]

Minutes 26 September 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Opens

Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Red Hat


Release Dates
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* v19.11 dates:
  * Proposal deadline passed, it was on 06 September 2019
  * Integration/Merge/RC1     Friday 11 October   2019
  * Release                   Friday 08 November  2019

* There is a PRC holiday on October 1-7

* Proposed dates for 20.02 release on the mail list, please comment
  https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-September/143311.html


Subtrees
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* main
  * David will be co-maintaining the main branch
  * There are two weeks to the rc1, patcwork looks busy


* next-net
  * Andrew's ethdev patchsets has been merged
  * ~250 patches in backlog, some may be pushed to rc2
  * It will be good if we can do an early merge to master branch this week

* next-net-virtio
  * Reviews are going on, no risk

* next-net-intel
  * Some ice shared code has been merged, more to go
  * There are some ethdev dependencies, pinged for review

* next-net-mrvl
  * Some patches will be merged next week, no risk

* next-eventdev
  * Will merge patch this week and next week, no risk
  * Marvell planning to submit, two eventdev applications
    * One separate l2fwd-event app and update the existing l3fwd to add support
      for eventdev.

* LTS

  * v18.11.3-rc1 is under test
    * Microsoft and Intel sent reports
    * Target release date is 9 October

  * v17.11.7-rc1 is under test
    * Intel testing reported issues
    * Some fixes merged for the reported issues, mostly minor issues
    * There won't be an -rc2, release will be this week

OvS
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* Intel is pushing multi-seg TSO support
  * A patch may be required in DPDK vhost side
* dpdk_latest branch lagging behind master, Ian will take care


Open
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* Please check Coverity and Bugzilla defects



DPDK Release Status Meetings
============================

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 Thursdays at 8:30 UTC. If you wish to attend just
send an email to "John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>" for the invite.

Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 26/9/2019

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 2:52 PM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Minutes 26 September 2019
> -------------------------
>

[snip]

> OvS
> ---
>
> * Intel is pushing multi-seg TSO support
>   * A patch may be required in DPDK vhost side

There seems to be some confusion here.

Michal (@Intel) sent new patchsets for TSO support [1] using multiseg [2].
Flavio proposed a PoC as an alternative solution [3] but it would
require a change in the dpdk vhost library [4].

1: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/list/?series=130206
2: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/list/?series=130193

3: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/list/?series=132124
4: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/list/?series=132126


-- 
David Marchand