Hi, DPDK 20.05-rc1 is planned to be released in less than three weeks. This is challenging because some patches are missing reviews.
We all want to have our code reviewed and accepted.
It will happen if everybody take time to read ideas,
comment the designs and review the implementations.
Before starting, do not hesitate to prepare yourself comfortably:
https://www.jango.com/browse_music
Below are some suggested readings, please pick one or more in the list:
- gcc 10 support
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/
- clean-up compiler hint attributes
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/
- data type for AVX512
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/
- helpers for bit operations
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/
- C11 atomics
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/
- ring enhancemements
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/2445314.H8VbNj7W2P@xps/
- basic memory management for Windows
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/
- cleanup more resources on shutdown
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/
- probing control
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/2593334.B0Pyx7erxp@xps/
- ethdev close behaviour and usage
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/1913442.o4kTbAZ4gJ@xps/
- vectorize virtio packed ring datapath
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/
- clean-up NIC features matrix in documentation
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/
- fixes and tests for rte_security
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/
- nodes graph as packet processing pipeline
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/
- telemetry rework
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/
- tracepoints compatible with LTTng
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/
- internal symbol marking
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/1929042.qExNQAuVzC@xps/
And to prepare next releases, some design discussions need to progress:
- VFIO token for PF
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/
- IF proxy
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/
- ethdev capabilities and feature enabling
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/13121897.9FIjf2LrnR@xps/
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/8032312.HfnmF1KY9p@xps/
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/
Thanks a lot for helping releases to happen!

