Meeting minutes of 29 October 2020 ---------------------------------- Agenda: * Release Dates * -rc1 status * Subtrees Participants: * Arm * Debian/Microsoft * Intel * Marvell * Nvidia * NXP * Red Hat Release Dates ------------- * v20.11 dates * -rc2 pushed to *Tuesday, 3 November 2020* * -rc3: Thursday, 12 November 2020 * Release: Wednesday, 25 November 2020 -rc1 status ----------- * Intel test report shared, many issues reported but no critical/showstopper issue: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-October/189618.html * Red Hat sent a test report, all looks good https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-October/189872.html Subtrees -------- * main * Thomas was busy with mbuf patchset, please review * https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=13454 * https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=13416 * Power patchset eal part can be merged to enable DLB eventdev drivers * The ethdev patch requires new version with more documentation * Ferruh & Jerin will try to review the ethdev patch * fibs patchset merged * Working on * Ring series from Honnappa * replace blacklist/whitelist with allow/block from Stephen * There is a makefile for the kmods repo, please review * https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/79999/ * There is a GSO API behavior change without deprecation notice * https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/82163/ * Requires techboard approval * There is a patch to add MMIO support to PIO map * Can it be handled in virtio level? more review please * https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=13220 * next-net * Andrew was covering next-net for past a few days * Will get ethdev patch to remove legacy filter support * https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=13207&state=* * There is a dependency to tep-term example removal * https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/82169/ * https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=13211&state=* * Will pull from all sub-trees * next-crypto * Merged most of the patches, 7-8 left * enqueue & dequeue callback functions series from Intel remaining * Was suspicions that it can be ABI break * Will ask for new version * Planning to merge if there is not objection * next-eventdev * Waiting new version for DLB PMDs * eal libraries may be merged very soon, if so new version can be done as rebased on top of it * Need the new version soon (today/tomorrow), to be able to review and merge it for the -rc2 * next-virtio * Pull request sent for -rc2 * No more patch expected for -rc2 * next-net-intel * Some patches already merged and waiting for pull * next-net-mlx * There can be more features for -rc2 * Some patches already merged and waiting for pull * next-net-mrvl * There will be two more patches for -rc2, they will be processed soon * next-net-brcm * Some patches already merged and waiting for pull 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 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>" for the invite.