Minutes 25 June 2020 -------------------- Agenda: * Release Dates * Subtrees * LTS * OvS * Opens Participants: * Debian/Microsoft * Intel * Marvell * Mellanox * NXP * Red Hat Release Dates ------------- * v20.08 dates: * -rc1: Wednesday, 8 July 2020 * -rc2: Monday, 20 July 2020 * Release: Tuesday, 4 August 2020 * v20.11 proposal dates, please comment: * Proposal/V1: Wednesday, 2 September 2020 * -rc1: Wednesday, 30 September 2020 * -rc2: Friday, 16 October 2020 * Release: Friday, 6 November 2020 Subtrees -------- * main * Window porting progressing * Core library support, mempool, mbuf & ethdev planned for this release * A PMD for windows planned for 20.11 * -rc1 deadline looks short considering roadmap features * Need more reviews * Some features may be dropped if not reviewed * Jerin will review Mellanox multicast patch * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-June/169943.html * next-net * Only some patches merged this week, pulled from vendor sub-trees * There are still some ethdev patches * Big shared code updates from Intel waiting is a concern * next-crypto * Started reviews * There is DOCSIS patches under review * Will try to merge some on this week * If compressdev maintenance takes too much effort we can consider separating it * Not much activity as of now, Mellanox may send some patches * bbdev also in Akhil's bucket, we may consider separating that based on work load * next-eventdev * Waiting a new version of Intel DLB PMD * If there are API changes, having it late may cause missing the release * Will merge some patches next week * next-virtio * vhost improve ready state patchset discussion is going on * vDPA API and framework rework, rebased and send a new version * Chenbo/Ferruh will cover during absence of Maxime LTS --- * v19.11.3 released * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-June/170820.htmlesult * v18.11.9-rc1 is out, please test * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-June/170888.html * The planned date for the final release is 3rd July. * Microsoft testing it, will send the report OvS --- * 2.14 Release feature deadline (soft deadline) is approaching (beginning of July) Opens ----- * We may check ABI documentation if it requires clarification * Testing * There is a new hire in the community lab * Will extend DTS for testing * Will start with basic ethdev testing * A change in the recent kernels are causing crash with vfio * The kernel side commit: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=abafbc551fddede3e0a08dee1dcde08fc0eb8476 * The kernel side commit seems merged for v5.8-rc1 * Fix in DPDK: http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20200625035046.19820-1-haiyue.wang@intel.com/ * Defects * Ajit prepared a Bugzilla report * Meeting on "meet.jit.si/DPDK" going fine, will continue with it 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.