[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 8/11/2018

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

Minutes 8 November 2018
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Agenda:
* Dates
* RC2 status
* RC3
* Subtrees
* Bugzilla
* OvS
* Conferences
* Coverity
* Opens


Participants:
* Broadcom
* Cavium
* Debian
* Intel
* Mellanox
* NXP
* RedHat


Release Dates
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* RC1 was out on Monday, 29 October.
* RC2 was out on Tuesday, 6 November.
* RC3 date is *Monday, 12 November*
* Release date is *Tuesday, 20 November 2018*

* 19.02 dates discussion on mail list:
  https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-October/116345.html
  Proposed dates copy-paste from above thread:
  * Proposal deadline Friday 23 November 2018
  * Merge deadline    Friday 14 December 2018
  * RC1 release       Friday 21 December 2018
  * RCx + Testing     Friday 25 January  2019
  * Release           Friday  1 February 2019


RC2 status
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* Blocking IOVA issues, including 32bit one, are resolved. Thanks to Alejandro.

* A performance drop reported on x86 caused by disabling avx512 for GCC.
  * Commit 8d07c82b239f ("mk: disable gcc AVX512F support")
  * Intel is working on a fix for RC3.

* Jerin reported l3fwd performance drop on arm caused by hash library updates:
  * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-November/118393.html
  * Cavium & ARM are working on a fix.
  * Target is to fix on RC3 but won't be a blocker, if the issue is not fixed
    on time, responsible commit will be reverted on RC3.
  * This affects all architectures, Intel should check too.

* Jerin reported build issue that Thomas will include into RC3.
  https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=2306 (?)

* Kevin reported that RedHat validation still observing Bug #76.
  * Anatoly is trying to reproduce the issue.
  * https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76

* DPDK Open Lab performance testing did not able to identify these
  performance issues, worth thinking what to improve there.


RC3
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* l2fwd rework won't able to make the RC3 and release.
  https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=1752

* procinfo changes will be considered for next release.
  https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=2297

* There aren't more deprecation notices yet.

* Thomas highlighted hotplug issues/patches requires attention.


Subtrees
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* main
  * Possible to have more release candidates in this release.

* next-net
  * A few patches merged, no critical issue.

* next-crypto
  * Three patches are merged, waiting to be pulled.

* next-virtio
  * Preparing a pull request for Friday.
  * No critical issue.

* next-eventdev
  * No patches for RC3.

* next-pipeline
* next-qos
  *

* Stable trees
  * Kevin checked backports to 18.08, there are around 230 patches,
    he will communicate with authors for some of them.
  * Luca queried how to hook up stable branches to the CI/OpenLab,
    he will join bi-weekly CI meeting to request/discuss this.


Bugzilla
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* 2 new issues this week.
* Number of open defects are increasing, Ajit did one pass on them,
  planning to do another one.


OvS
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* Development branch 'dpdk_latest' switched to 18.08, no blocker issue.
* Kevin worked on changes for detach/attach changes.
* Kevin did simple PVP testing, there is no issue.


Conferences
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* DPDK North America summit acceptances are out,
  schedule will be announced in the next few days.


Coverity
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* Coverity is back online and John run the latest code on it.
* Some issues are real defects, please pay attention to Coverity issues:
  https://scan.coverity.com/projects/dpdk-data-plane-development-kit


Opens
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* Akhil to get crypto libraries, he got one but will follow for others.


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 me an email and I will send you the invite.