Minutes 8 November 2018 ----------------------- Agenda: * Dates * RC2 status * RC3 * Subtrees * Bugzilla * OvS * Conferences * Coverity * Opens Participants: * Broadcom * Cavium * Debian * Intel * Mellanox * NXP * RedHat Release Dates ------------- * 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 ---------- * 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 --- * 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 -------- * 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 -------- * 2 new issues this week. * Number of open defects are increasing, Ajit did one pass on them, planning to do another one. OvS --- * 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 ----------- * DPDK North America summit acceptances are out, schedule will be announced in the next few days. Coverity -------- * 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 ----- * 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.