Next meeting July 24th 1700 UTC
July 10th minutes
Attendees: Ian, Aaron, Eelco, Fouad, Johann, Scott, Simon.
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GENERAL
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- OVS 2.12 (Ian)
-- Dates
--- Soft Freeze entered 7th July. Will remain until the 22nd of July.
---- Hard freeze from the 22nd of July onwards. Only bug fixes accepted
for 2.12 beyond this point.
---- Release ~ mid August (typically 4 weeks after hard freeze).
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PERFORMANCE/FEATURES
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- Quicker PMD Reloads
-- Status: v4 accepted and upstreamed to master.
- Poll enabled vHost queues.
-- Status: Accepted and upstreamed to master.
- Vhost retry stats and configuration.
-- Status: Accepted and upstreamed to master.
- DPDK 18.11.2 support.
-- Status: accepted to master and branch 2.11.
-- 18.11.2 is now the minimum DPDK supported for master.
-- OVS 2.11 will still be able to use 18.11.2 or earlier.
- dpcls function pointer & optimizations.
-- Status: v10 revision sent to mailing list yesterday.
-- Corrects latest issues flagged on v9, now passes travis, appveyor etc.
-- Testing on ARM & x86 showing performance improvements 10 - 15%.
- RFC 4115 egress policer on dpdk-next, sent RFC patch (Eelco).
-- Required policer functionality available since DPDK 19.05.
-- Looking for feedback on current RFC series so as to merge the
feature to master as soon as DPDK 19.11 is supported in OVS.
-- https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1122062/
- HW CT offload (Aaron)
-- RFC v2 submitted.
-- https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/list/?series=117809
-- Question regarding would this be too late for consideration of OVS 2.12?
-- Probably best for author to raise with maintainers on mailing list
for exception if enough feedback is secured before the 2.12 deadline.
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Bugs
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- Call to action for the 2.12 release window.
- Testing and validation across the community before the 2.12 release
date appreciated. Any bugs or regression reported to the mailing list.
Regards
Ian
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