[ovs-dev] [PATCH v1 1/1] dpdk: Use DPDK 18.11.5 release.

Stokes, Ian ian.stokes at intel.com
Wed Nov 27 15:56:54 UTC 2019



On 11/26/2019 1:36 PM, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> On 26/11/2019 12:03, Ian Stokes wrote:
>> Modify travis linux build script to use the latest DPDK stable release
>> 18.11.5. Update docs for latest DPDK stable releases.
>>
>> 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     | 8 ++++----
>>   Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst | 6 +++---
>>   NEWS                                     | 1 +
>>   5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/.travis/linux-build.sh b/.travis/linux-build.sh
>> index 4e74973a3..8671acbb3 100755
>> --- a/.travis/linux-build.sh
>> +++ b/.travis/linux-build.sh
>> @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ fi
>>   
>>   if [ "$DPDK" ] || [ "$DPDK_SHARED" ]; then
>>       if [ -z "$DPDK_VER" ]; then
>> -        DPDK_VER="18.11.2"
>> +        DPDK_VER="18.11.5"
>>       fi
>>       install_dpdk $DPDK_VER
>>       # Enable pdump support in OVS.
>> diff --git a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
>> index 4152345e3..2be35d332 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
>> @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ Q: What DPDK version does each Open vSwitch release work with?
>>       2.9.x        17.11.4
>>       2.10.x       17.11.4
>>       2.11.x       18.11.2
>> -    2.12.x       18.11.2
>> +    2.12.x       18.11.5
>>       ============ =======
>>   
>>   Q: Are all the DPDK releases that OVS versions work with maintained?
>> diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
>> index 50de7fbac..7a8fd6bf6 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
>> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Build requirements
>>   In addition to the requirements described in :doc:`general`, building Open
>>   vSwitch with DPDK will require the following:
>>   
>> -- DPDK 18.11.2
>> +- DPDK 18.11.5
>>   
>>   - A `DPDK supported NIC`_
>>   
>> @@ -71,9 +71,9 @@ Install DPDK
>>   #. Download the `DPDK sources`_, extract the file and set ``DPDK_DIR``::
>>   
>>          $ cd /usr/src/
>> -       $ wget http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-18.11.2.tar.xz
>> -       $ tar xf dpdk-18.11.2.tar.xz
>> -       $ export DPDK_DIR=/usr/src/dpdk-stable-18.11.2
>> +       $ wget http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-18.11.5.tar.xz
>> +       $ tar xf dpdk-18.11.5.tar.xz
>> +       $ export DPDK_DIR=/usr/src/dpdk-stable-18.11.5
>>          $ 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 ec0caeb16..2d6462b89 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
>> @@ -392,9 +392,9 @@ 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-18.11.2.tar.xz
>> -    $ tar xf dpdk-18.11.2.tar.xz
>> -    $ export DPDK_DIR=/root/dpdk/dpdk-stable-18.11.2
>> +    $ wget http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-18.11.5.tar.xz
>> +    $ tar xf dpdk-18.11.5.tar.xz
>> +    $ export DPDK_DIR=/root/dpdk/dpdk-stable-18.11.5
>>       $ export DPDK_TARGET=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
>>       $ export DPDK_BUILD=$DPDK_DIR/$DPDK_TARGET
>>       $ cd $DPDK_DIR
>> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
>> index 100d7b6a8..850eff7fe 100644
>> --- a/NEWS
>> +++ b/NEWS
>> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Post-v2.12.0
>>        * DPDK pdump packet capture support disabled by default. New configure
>>          option '--enable-dpdk-pdump' to enable it.
>>        * DPDK pdump support is deprecated and will be removed in next releases.
>> +     * OVS validated with DPDK 18.11.5 which is recommended to be used.
> 
> It might be worth to mention here that it is a strong recommendation as
> it has a fix for CVE-2019-14818.
> 
> For the 3 patches:
> Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>

Thanks Kevin,

I've mentioned this in the NEWS and applied the series.

Regards
Ian


More information about the dev mailing list