Meeting minutes of 21 January 2021
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Highlights
* -rc1 status
* Subtrees
* LTS
* Opens
Participants:
* Arm
* Broadcom
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Nvidia
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v21.02 dates
* -rc1 is released on Tuesday, 19 January 2021
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/4846307.Pfn0FrbqUJ@thomas/
* -rc2 Friday, 29 January 2021
* -rc3 Friday, 5 February 2021
* Release pushed to *Wednesday, 17 February 2021*
* Release date may conflict with Chinese New Year, we need to discuss and
define the release date offline in the mail list, please comment.
Highlights
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* Need to finalize the 21.02 release date on the mail list.
* pmdinfogen will be switched to python implementation, CI / testing
infrastructures should prepare themselves for the 'pyelftools' dependency.
The patchset to verify the infrastructure in advance:
* https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=13153
-rc1 status
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* No testing result received yet.
* Two build errors detected, virtio for Arm and mingw cross build.
Subtrees
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* main
* There are built errors with -rc1
* Arm virtio build error, asked for help
* Mingw cross builds, with older versions of compiler
* Build related updates can continue for -rc2
* Applied changes were mostly for Arm
* New build options can be added
* pmdinfogen python rewrite not merged for -rc1, but planned for -rc2
* This may break the CI / test infrastructures because of 'pyelftools'
dependency
* This has been called out many times, will merge at this point
* Intel power management series
* Partially merged, ethdev & eal part merged, power library part is
remaining
* power library get a new version
* Thomas has concern about the power library design, it looks like
designed for a specific case and not generic
* Currently there is not better suggestion, will proceed if no
there is no objection
* Header check patchset merged partially
* ABI checks, some exceptions added
* Exceptions should be reviewed carefully
* We lost Travis automated ABI checks
* There is github actions checks but it is not sending reports back to
patchwork
* There is a work going on for reporting
* Authors either check ABI themselves or explicitly check the github
actions test results for it
* Can check automated test from:
https://github.com/ovsrobot/dpdk/actions
* Is ring library refactoring work stalled? Arm will check.
* https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=14405
* next-net
* Following ehtdev patches not able to make the -rc1 and postponed to next
release:
* ethdev: introduce representor type
* last version sent late for -rc1
* add apistats function
* Not clear if this is right approach, more comments required
* Also there are some ethdev patches from previous releases, they need to be
cleaned up, most probably will be done in next release.
* For -rc2, there are
* octeon_tx endpoint driver
* ionic set
* various driver and testpmd fixes
* patchsets that first version sent after -rc1 will get less priority
* next-crypto
* There is new compressdev PMD for the -rc2
* Also an ABI break discussion is going on
* next-eventdev
* no update
* next-virtio
* The big refactor set work is going on
* Plan is to merge it for -rc2 if it is ready
* Intel vhost example review is going on, planned for -rc2
* There are some concerns on Alibaba's PIO mapping patch
* Not able to test but there is potential issues
* Struct packing series has less priority against the refactoring sets,
and can wait the refactoring sets to be merged first.
* next-net-mlx
* -rc1 looks OK
* A couple of patches already merged for the -rc2
* A few more is expected
* next-net-brcm
* A few fixes in the backlog
* next-net-intel
* Progressing
* next-net-mrvl
* mvpp2 is expected for the -rc2
LTS
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* v18.11.11 is released
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20210120155818.388598-1-ktray...@redhat.com
* This is the last release of the 18.11 LTS, thanks to all contributors
* v19.11.7
* Luca will start working on patches
* v20.11.x
* Kevin will step down from the 20.11 LTS maintainership, volunteers are
welcome.
Opens
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* Coverity scans are automated but not able to assign defects
* Milestone doc is still pending
* https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/86455/
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.
