[ovs-dev] [PATCH Branch-2.7] dpdk: Use DPDK 16.11.5 stable release.

[Kevin Traynor]

On 03/09/2018 12:51 PM, Ian Stokes wrote:
> Modify docs and travis linux build script to use DPDK 16.11.5 stable
> branch to benefit from most recent bug fixes.
> 
> There are no new features introduced in the DPDK release, only back
> ported bug fixes. For completeness these bug fixes have been
> documented under the 16.11.5 section in the link below.
> 
> http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-16.11/rel_notes/release_16_11.html#id5
> 

Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>

> Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes at intel.com>
> ---
>  .travis/linux-build.sh                   | 2 +-
>  Documentation/faq/releases.rst           | 2 +-
>  Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst     | 6 +++---
>  Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst | 8 ++++----
>  4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/.travis/linux-build.sh b/.travis/linux-build.sh
> index 088f20f..663f096 100755
> --- a/.travis/linux-build.sh
> +++ b/.travis/linux-build.sh
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ fi
>  
>  if [ "$DPDK" ]; then
>      if [ -z "$DPDK_VER" ]; then
> -        DPDK_VER="16.11.4"
> +        DPDK_VER="16.11.5"
>      fi
>      install_dpdk $DPDK_VER
>      if [ "$CC" = "clang" ]; then
> diff --git a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
> index c60d0ad..e11de49 100644
> --- a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
> @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ Q: What DPDK version does each Open vSwitch release work with?
>      2.4.x        2.0
>      2.5.x        2.2
>      2.6.x        16.07.2
> -    2.7.x        16.11.4
> +    2.7.x        16.11.5
>      ============ =======
>  
>  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 4ee93f2..4f7d20f 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-16.11.4.tar.xz
> -       $ tar xf dpdk-16.11.4.tar.xz
> -       $ export DPDK_DIR=/usr/src/dpdk-stable-16.11.4
> +       $ wget http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-16.11.5.tar.xz
> +       $ tar xf dpdk-16.11.5.tar.xz
> +       $ export DPDK_DIR=/usr/src/dpdk-stable-16.11.5
>         $ 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 b75c9dc..a267384 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-16.11.4.tar.xz
> -    $ tar xf dpdk-16.11.4.tar.xz
> -    $ export DPDK_DIR=/root/dpdk/dpdk-stable-16.11.4
> +    $ wget http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-16.11.5.tar.xz
> +    $ tar xf dpdk-16.11.5.tar.xz
> +    $ export DPDK_DIR=/root/dpdk/dpdk-stable-16.11.5
>      $ 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-stable-16.11.4'/>
> +          <source dir='/usr/src/dpdk-stable-16.11.5'/>
>            <target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/>
>            <readonly/>
>          </disk>
>