[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK 16.11 released

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new major release is available:
http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-16.11.tar.xz

It has been built by an important community:
728 patches from 119 authors
773 files changed, 60728 insertions(+), 1220384 deletions(-)

There are 56 new contributors
(including authors, reviewers and testers):
Thanks to Alain Leon, Aleksey Katargin, Alex Zelezniak, Ali Volkan Atli,
Amine Kherbouche, Ananda Sathyanarayana, Ben Walker, Byron Marohn,
Daniele Di Proietto, Daniel Verkamp, Deirdre O'Connor, Elad Persiko,
E. Scott Daniels, Frederico Cadete, Gary Mussar, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan,
Guolin Yang, Guruprasad Rao, James Poole, Jason Wang, Jean Tourrilhes,
Jiayu Hu, John Carney, John Ousterhout, Jon Loeliger, Jozef Martiniak,
Juho Snellman, Karmarkar Suyash, Luca Boccassi, Masoud Hasanifard,
Matthias Gatto, Mohammad Abdul Awal, Morten Br?rup, Nikhil Jagtap,
Ning Li, Nipun Gupta, Olivier Gournet, Patrick Kutch, Pierre Pfister,
Qiming Yang, Qi Zhang, Rahul R Shah, Sagi Grimberg, Saikrishna Edupuganti,
Sarath Somasekharan, Souvik Dey, Tal Avraham, Tao Y Yang, Vincent Guo,
Wang Wei, Weiliang Luo, Wei Zhao, Xuekun Hu, Yangchao Zhou, Yunjian Wang,
Zhiyong Yang.

These new contributors are associated with these domain names:
163.com, 6wind.com, annapurnalabs.com, argela.com.tr, att.com,
broadcom.com, brocade.com, ciena.com, cisco.com, corp.free.fr,
cs.stanford.edu, gmail.com, grimberg.me, huawei.com, iki.fi,
intel.com, jd.com, labs.hpe.com, linux.vnet.ibm.com, mellanox.com,
netgate.com, nxp.com, oneaccess-net.com, outscale.com, redhat.com,
research.att.com, smartsharesystems.com, sonusnet.com,
versa-networks.com, vmware.com, 

Some highlights:
- new device object model
- more networking offloads
- improved vhost
- virtio for NEON on ARM
- new crypto libraries (ZUC and OpenSSL)
More details in the release notes:
http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.html

The new features for the 17.02 cycle must be submitted before December 4.
There is a long list of expected works:
http://dpdk.org/dev/roadmap
It means we will have a huge workload to properly review all the new stuff
before the end of the year. Do not forget to help reviewing patches from
others if we want to have a chance to integrate everything in time.

Other works in progress:
- A structure in Linux Foundation is being discussed at moving at dpdk.org
http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/ci
- A CI process is being discussed at ci at dpdk.org
http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/moving

Thanks everyone

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] improve git diff

[Thomas Monjalon]

2016-11-09 16:44, Thomas Monjalon:
> Sometimes git does not print the name of the function being changed
> after @@. It happens especially after a goto label which is not indented.
> Giving a hint about the languages of files .c, .h and .py
> will improve hunk headers of "git diff" rendering.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon 

Applied

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] doc: fix release notes for 16.11

[Thomas Monjalon]

2016-11-11 12:04, John McNamara:
> Fix grammar, spelling and formatting of DPDK 16.11 release notes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John McNamara 

Applied, thanks

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for ethtool app enhance

[Thomas Monjalon]

> > This patch adds a notice that the ABI change for ethtool app to get the NIC
> > firmware version in the 17.02 release.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Qiming Yang 
Acked-by: Jingjing Wu 
Acked-by: Beilei Xing 
> Acked-by: Helin Zhang 

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] doc: announce API and ABI change for librte_ether

[Thomas Monjalon]

> >> In 17.02 five rte_eth_dev_set_vf_*** functions will be removed from
> >> librte_ether, renamed and moved to the ixgbe PMD.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger 
> > 
> > Acked-by: John McNamara 
Acked-by: Reshma Pattan 
> Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit 

Applied

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] doc: announce API change for ethdev function

[Thomas Monjalon]

> > The _rte_eth_dev_call_process function will change to return "int"
> > and a fourth parameter "void* ret_param" will be added. This change
> > targets release 17.02.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger 
> 
> Acked-by: John McNamara 

The real API change is in rte_eth_dev_cb_fn but we understand the idea.

Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon 

Applied

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API and ABI changes for librte_eal

[Thomas Monjalon]

> > >> Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain 
> > >
> > > Acked-by: David Marchand 
> > 
> > Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit 
> 
> Acked-by: Reshma Pattan 

Applied

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: remove iomem and ioport handling in igb_uio

[Thomas Monjalon]

> > Suggested-by: Yigit, Ferruh 
> > Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan 
> 
> Acked-by: Remy Horton 

Applied

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] doc: rearrange the high level documentation index

[Thomas Monjalon]

2016-11-11 13:45, John McNamara:
> Rearrange the order of the high level documenation index into
> a more logical sequence for a new user.
> 
> Also, improve some of the high-level document names.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John McNamara 

Applied, thanks