From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DC33A0C4C; Tue, 13 Jul 2021 18:15:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D494D41257; Tue, 13 Jul 2021 18:15:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-qk1-f178.google.com (mail-qk1-f178.google.com [209.85.222.178]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5451941238 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2021 18:15:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-qk1-f178.google.com with SMTP id m3so8327234qkm.10 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2021 09:15:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=broadcom.com; s=google; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=OrsdM0oFdor3mcghc2aluvcDxb4OdTNC0t856gnGiRo=; b=dO05mQKUI2V3TtWt41GJnzCUg7CO9Tpkq5hv+m3mJxhOWQcrvtDEgQ7PYvei8tkIkL 70spp+GmvpHXF78H8KRAV1a/E21AQtxDqGkeBVFH7cIXDeutLsGej71DN3lwM0JtkG8L QYLBTqaosN/tkCxVDKrIOGcVzcT3yTcHbw8Dk= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=OrsdM0oFdor3mcghc2aluvcDxb4OdTNC0t856gnGiRo=; b=h9XqMFtg75uQGbSfAFw7lATsPXCv6sZyIRTRQrfQkuHK5ki/07z9klKwy4wegUHJVZ uHjmapwA7xkXbXj5JQtBaIE8MMGZdGcBYz7Ff+Asa4RD0ipm0wf4bObEeZ666vwXV9ez W3Ac9EiDXj3J5Bk9YtimgQVdDi+bVZ9Rvd7OPKfmULS4JoaIfJbKOW3pO2dB4Rgl+Bp1 eocq4gZkO0KTt4W1F1keonRHOhsle7vqbz0fy2/qJSBX5yVZnWs4IVfQkD0iiXj4dbjn 0af/uE2tx75mUGcj6QMPvhcViwV1ZIrnqZFEICUNqYCCZutlOeMpLXZI5PsDvZQDbXVE hAew== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532c5FHmVsI9A3yg7bly6hB199KeGdrtS0g4os1aICBnZ4S2CKsL Eo2WDZdPriM9PhiYIOpXkcawcSP2/y3TpDbWAX4Ecg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJy48EDGpPOIZuGvlwoBsnNfSGTm6REKtMB2YRqiJ13Xvx4dqgN5aM2dZSnuiEECgaUqTk4Dvg/2xPyVn5g7mI0= X-Received: by 2002:a37:bf81:: with SMTP id p123mr5154685qkf.40.1626192946529; Tue, 13 Jul 2021 09:15:46 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <2874531.2S3dPSLiCe@thomas> <27681980-611c-21ce-b9d1-eb7c49c79482@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <27681980-611c-21ce-b9d1-eb7c49c79482@redhat.com> From: Ajit Khaparde Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 09:15:28 -0700 Message-ID: To: Kevin Traynor Cc: Honnappa Nagarahalli , "thomas@monjalon.net" , "dev@dpdk.org" , "david.marchand@redhat.com" , "maxime.coquelin@redhat.com" , "rasland@nvidia.com" , "aconole@redhat.com" , "bruce.richardson@intel.com" , "ferruh.yigit@intel.com" , "mdr@ashroe.eu" , nd Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha-256; boundary="000000000000f0782305c7038c79" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.29 Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] RHEL 7 support X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" --000000000000f0782305c7038c79 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 2:48 AM Kevin Traynor wrote: > > On 12/07/2021 18:34, Honnappa Nagarahalli wrote: > > > > > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I would like to open a discussion about RHEL 7 support in DPDK. > >> How long do we want to support it in new DPDK versions? > >> Can we drop RHEL 7 support starting DPDK 21.11? > > I think the concerns were from Redhat and Intel. > > > > I think it's fine to drop from a DPDK distro package view. The DPDK > package in RHEL7 won't be updated to new main releases anymore. > > It's not quite as clear for a user compiling their own DPDK. CentOS7 is > in maintenance mode until mid 2024 and will only get security or > critical fixes. > > You could still have a user on CentOS7 compiling their own DPDK from the > latest tarballs. It feels like an unlikely combination but maybe someone > knows of a user like that. > > As the distro version won't get latest software packages, it seems > reasonable that latest DPDK is not supported either, but there would > need to be some advance warning. +1 If RHEL7 and Centos7 are in maintenance mode, I think it is fair to taper DPDK support as well. > > 20.11 LTS will provide bugfix/security that should be ok on CentOS7 > until Jan 2023. > > >> > >> If we decide to drop RHEL 7 support, does it mean we can generally use > >> standard C11 atomics? > > What is the next RHEL version we support officially? > > RHEL8 is supported. > > > If we adopt C11 atomic APIs, we need to think about windows support too. > > > >> > >> What other benefits or impacts can you think about? > >> > > > --000000000000f0782305c7038c79--