[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 17/06/2021

[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 17/06/2021

[Mcnamara, John]

Release status meeting minutes {Date}
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:Date: 17 June 2021
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.Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

.Participants:
* Arm
* Broadcom
* Canonical
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat


Release Dates
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* `v21.08` dates
  - Proposal/V1:    Wednesday, 2 June (completed)
  - -rc1:           Monday,    5 July
  - Release:        Tuesday,   3 August

* Note: We need to hold to the early August release date since
  several of the maintainers will be on holidays after that.

* `v21.11` dates (proposed and subject to discussion)
  - Proposal/V1:    Friday, 10 September
  - -rc1:           Friday, 15 October
  - Release:        Friday, 19 November

Subtrees
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* main
  - Merged series from last release on PCI bus update for resets with VF devices
  - Working on unit test failures from UNH lab
  - Working on Solarflare patches
  - Discussion ongoing about DMA Engine RFC
  - Thomas applying some  patchsets
    ** Series from Marvell - Raw device driver for basebase/PHY
    ** Auxiliary bus
    ** Mediated device - concerns from kernel on on similar DSA Driver:
      *** https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/162164243591.261970.3439987543338120797.stgit@djiang5-desk3.ch.intel.com/
        *** https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/kvm/cover/0-v1-324b2038f212+1041f1-vfio3a_jgg@nvidia.com/


* next-net
  - Andrew working on testpmd patches for Windows - needs ack
  - Bonding patches also need reviews

* next-crypto
  - 4 new PMDs in this release
    ** CNXK - reviewed
    ** MLX - no update
    ** Intel QAT - will be reviewed next week
    ** NXP baseband - requires new version

* next-eventdev
  - CNXK eventdev driver - awaiting further revisions

* next-virtio
  - 4 series from Intel around the async data - under review
  - 1 series from Maxime - kernel vdpa support - get mac address
    from hardware. Under review and will send update
  - Working on fixing issue in vhost with numa reallocation

* next-net-brcm
  - Big patchset with 58 patches merged into dpdk-next-net-brcm sub tree.
  - 4 to 5 patches pending on patchwork.
  - Partially merged in main. The rest under review Thomas.

* next-net-intel
  - Proceeding okay. No issues

* next-net-mlx
  - Should be a small release for Mellanox
  - Mainly fixes and RFCs

* next-net-mrvl
  - CNXK ethernet driver (from last release).
  - V4 should be merged next week.


LTS
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* `v19.11` (next version is `v19.11.9`)
  - RC3 tagged
  - Target release date July 2

* `v20.11` (next version is `v20.11.2`)
  - Tagged for release: RC1

* Distros
  - v20.11 in Debian 11
  - v20.11 in Ubuntu 21.04


Defects
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* Bugzilla links, 'Bugs',  added for hosted projects
  - https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/


Opens
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* None


.DPDK Release Status Meetings
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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.
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