Meeting minutes of 12 November 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Roadmaps
* -rc3 status
* Subtrees
* LTS
Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.11 dates
* -rc3 is released on Thursday, 5 November 2020
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/1695484.4DzFrLkl2F@thomas/
* -rc4: Friday, 13 November 2020
* -rc5: Friday, 20 November 2020
* Release: Wednesday, 25 November 2020
* v21.02 proposal dates, please comment:
* Proposal/V1: Sunday, 20 December 2020
* -rc1: Friday, 15 January 2021
* Release: Friday, 5 February 2021
Roadmaps
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* Targeting a better project management with roadmaps from all contributors in
advance.
* This enables allocating resources according, manage maintainers' time and set
expectations correct.
* The features announced with a roadmap in advance will get priority on
processing/reviews/commits for that release cycle.
* The roadmap should be sent as early as possible, if possible before start of a
release cycle but not later than two weeks after the previous release.
-rc3 status
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* Ping (form Intel) sent the test repot
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-November/192242.html
* Nothing critical, found defects are worked on them
* Marvell found an issue on Rx adapter, working on it
Subtrees
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* main
* Example build fix patch is out
* Fix is out, trying to figure out the root cause
* Patch to enable building more examples is in the queue
* Mbuf patches looks ready, planning to merge soon
* Stephen's replace blacklist/whitelist with allow/block patch has a new
version
* Luca did detailed review
* Previous comments are addressed
* Bruce reviewed for build and reported build issues
* pipeline doc updates in the queue
* Juraj's Arm build options rework set
* needs more testing
* In suse build environment, there are some arm and PPC build error
* For arm the RHEL 7 compiler for arm is too old
* Can be possible to disable the failing driver and still test the rest
* next-net
* txgbe second set doesn't look ready, most probably will be
postponed to next release
* fixes after first set has been merged
* There are a few ethdev deprecation notices in the queue
* The RFC to replace the 'rte_eth_mirror_*' APIs postponed to next release
* https://patches.dpdk.org/user/todo/dpdk/?series=13606&delegate=319&state=*
* The existing APIs will be removed 21.11, so we have time for this
* Rest are various fixes
* Regularly pulling from vendor trees
* next-crypto
* No update
* next-eventdev
* Pull request sent for -rc4
* There are some new DLB fixes
* Will check them and send another pull request
* next-virtio
* A series for fixes requires new version
* Patch to enable prefetch is under discussion
* It is causing performance drop
* This is a global problem and can be solved in global level
* Performance drop is seen more in the virtio
* vhost sample, removing ioat dependency is under review
* next-net-intel
* Fixes are coming, there are more fixes in the queue
* next-net-mlx
* Fixes are coming, there are more fixes in the queue
* There was a patch changing rte_flow items sizes,
it may affect some drivers + applications
* Fixes are ready, will hit mail list soon
* next-net-mrvl
* No more patch expected for the -rc
* next-net-brcm
* No new patches in the tree
LTS
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* Next 18.11 release will be 18.11.11
* Half of the backlog processed
* Next 19.11 release will be 19.11.6
* Worked all patches, no surprise
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.mcnam...@intel.com>" for the invite.
