[ovs-dev] [PATCH] docs: Use DPDK 16.11.1 stable release.

[Daniele Di Proietto]

2017-03-09 13:15 GMT-08:00 Ian Stokes <ian.stokes at intel.com>:
> DPDK now provides a stable release branch. Modify dpdk docs and travis linux
> build script to use the DPDK 16.11.1 stable branch to benefit from most
> recent bug fixes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes at intel.com>

Thanks for the patch, it looks good to me.

This is for master and branch-2.7, right?

Just one comment, this appears to break the travis build:

https://travis-ci.org/ddiproietto/ovs/jobs/209586728

I guess we need to update the --with-dpdk argument in .travis/linux-build.sh

> ---
>  .travis/linux-build.sh                   |   10 +++++-----
>  Documentation/faq/releases.rst           |   10 +++++-----
>  Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst     |    6 +++---
>  Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst |    8 ++++----
>  4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/.travis/linux-build.sh b/.travis/linux-build.sh
> index 4175d72..06c8422 100755
> --- a/.travis/linux-build.sh
> +++ b/.travis/linux-build.sh
> @@ -52,13 +52,13 @@ function install_kernel()
>  function install_dpdk()
>  {
>      if [ -n "$DPDK_GIT" ]; then
> -        git clone $DPDK_GIT dpdk-$1
> -        cd dpdk-$1
> -        git checkout v$1
> +        git clone $DPDK_GIT dpdk-stable-$1
> +        cd dpdk-stable-$1
> +        git checkout tags/v$1
>      else
>          wget http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-$1.tar.gz
>          tar xzvf dpdk-$1.tar.gz > /dev/null
> -        cd dpdk-$1
> +        cd dpdk-stable-$1
>      fi
>      find ./ -type f | xargs sed -i 's/max-inline-insns-single=100/max-inline-insns-single=400/'
>      echo 'CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_FPIC=y' >>config/common_linuxapp
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ fi
>
>  if [ "$DPDK" ]; then
>      if [ -z "$DPDK_VER" ]; then
> -        DPDK_VER="16.11"
> +        DPDK_VER="16.11.1"
>      fi
>      install_dpdk $DPDK_VER
>      if [ "$CC" = "clang" ]; then
> diff --git a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
> index 118c88d..98f5636 100644
> --- a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
> @@ -152,16 +152,16 @@ Q: What DPDK version does each Open vSwitch release work with?
>      A: The following table lists the DPDK version against which the given
>      versions of Open vSwitch will successfully build.
>
> -    ============ =====
> +    ============ =======
>      Open vSwitch DPDK
> -    ============ =====
> +    ============ =======
>      2.2.x        1.6
>      2.3.x        1.6
>      2.4.x        2.0
>      2.5.x        2.2
> -    2.6.x        16.07
> -    2.7.x        16.11
> -    ============ =====
> +    2.6.x        16.07.2
> +    2.7.x        16.11.1
> +    ============ =======
>
>  Q: I get an error like this when I configure Open vSwitch::
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
> index 3018590..b947bd5 100644
> --- a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
> @@ -64,9 +64,9 @@ Install DPDK
>  #. Download the `DPDK sources`_, extract the file and set ``DPDK_DIR``::
>
>         $ cd /usr/src/
> -       $ wget http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-16.11.tar.xz
> -       $ tar xf dpdk-16.11.tar.xz
> -       $ export DPDK_DIR=/usr/src/dpdk-16.11
> +       $ wget http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-16.11.1.tar.xz
> +       $ tar xf dpdk-16.11.1.tar.xz
> +       $ export DPDK_DIR=/usr/src/dpdk-stable-16.11.1
>         $ cd $DPDK_DIR
>
>  #. (Optional) Configure DPDK as a shared library
> diff --git a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
> index 5448bd2..ba22684 100644
> --- a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
> @@ -278,9 +278,9 @@ To begin, instantiate a guest as described in :ref:`dpdk-vhost-user` or
>  DPDK sources to VM and build DPDK::
>
>      $ cd /root/dpdk/
> -    $ wget http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-16.11.tar.xz
> -    $ tar xf dpdk-16.11.tar.xz
> -    $ export DPDK_DIR=/root/dpdk/dpdk-16.11
> +    $ wget http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-16.11.1.tar.xz
> +    $ tar xf dpdk-16.11.1.tar.xz
> +    $ export DPDK_DIR=/root/dpdk/dpdk-stable-16.11.1
>      $ export DPDK_TARGET=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
>      $ export DPDK_BUILD=$DPDK_DIR/$DPDK_TARGET
>      $ cd $DPDK_DIR
> @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ Sample XML
>          </disk>
>          <disk type='dir' device='disk'>
>            <driver name='qemu' type='fat'/>
> -          <source dir='/usr/src/dpdk-16.11'/>
> +          <source dir='/usr/src/dpdk-stable-16.11.1'/>
>            <target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/>
>            <readonly/>
>          </disk>
> --
> 1.7.0.7
>
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