[ovs-dev] OVS-DPDK public meeting

[Flavio Leitner]

24th January 2018

Attendees: Flavio, Thomas, Jan, satananda, Michael, Ian, Zoltan, John, Aaron,
Ben, Johann, Pradeep, Simon, Olga, Frikkie,

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GENERAL
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OVS 2.9 Release
- New features deadline for 2.9: 31/Jan.
- Pull requests on a weekly basis, on Friday.

- Patches on DPDK_MERGE_2_9
-- DPDK version
-- MTU upper bound fix
-- PCI address fix
-- netdev-dpdk: Fix xstats leak on port destruction.
-- netdev-dpdk: Fix memory leak in netdev_dpdk_configure_xstats().
-- netdev-dpdk: Fix memory leak in netdev_dpdk_get_custom_stats().
-- VHost Zero Copy (Experimental)
---- Will be merged this evening after final validation

Potential patches for DPDK_MERGE_2_9
- HWOL (Experimental)
-- Ian Reviewing currently.
- Detailed PMD Performance Metrics
-- Changes requested, no update since last week.
- OVS DPDK Unit Tests
-- Ian validating/reviewing.
- netdev-dpdk: Configurable Link State Change (LSC) detection mode
- Custom Stats Refactor

Outstanding bug fixes
- Mellanox fix for multiple ports (in 2.9)
- MTU fixes (in 2.9)
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PERFORMANCE/FEATURES
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Meltdown/Spectre impact.  Flavio is interested in discussing potential impact
in OVS kernel datapath and userspace datapath, so if you have any results to
share/discuss, feel free to reach out.

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HARDWARE OFFLOAD
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Flavio