[ovs-dev] [PATCH v1 1/1] dpdk: Use DPDK 19.11.2 release.

Kevin Traynor ktraynor at redhat.com
Fri Jul 10 16:06:11 UTC 2020


On 10/07/2020 16:55, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> On 06/07/2020 16:50, Ian Stokes wrote:
>> Modify travis linux build script to use DPDK 19.11.2 stable release and
>> update docs to reference 19.11.2 stable release.
>>
>> 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                                     | 5 ++++-
>>  5 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>
> 
> userspace-tso.rst says:
> 
> When the NIC performing the segmentation is using the i40e DPDK PMD, a fix
> must be included in the DPDK build, otherwise TSO will not work. The fix can
> be found on `DPDK patchwork`__.
> 
> __ https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/64136/
> 
> This fix is expected to be included in the 19.11.1 release. When OVS
> migrates
> to this DPDK release, this limitation can be removed.
> ---
> 
> The commit is in 19.11.2 (see below), so can this be removed now or you
> want to keep as info for someone using 19.11.0 ? Either way the last
> paragraph deserves a little update. Other than that lgtm.
> 
> 
> commit 6b08d9b3331625a9b4c598d5520bc5fc27fce147
> Author: Xiaoyun Li <xiaoyun.li at intel.com>
> Date:   Thu Dec 26 14:45:44 2019 +0800
> 
>     net/i40e: fix Tx when TSO is enabled
> 
>     [ upstream commit 29b2ba82c4c94df1975d0cb9c5c23feef99cf6a3 ]
> 
> 
> $ git tag --contains 6b08d9b333162 | grep 19.11.2
> v19.11.2
> 
>> diff --git a/.travis/linux-build.sh b/.travis/linux-build.sh
>> index 02615a8ec..e0a065291 100755
>> --- a/.travis/linux-build.sh
>> +++ b/.travis/linux-build.sh
>> @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ fi
>>  
>>  if [ "$DPDK" ] || [ "$DPDK_SHARED" ]; then
>>      if [ -z "$DPDK_VER" ]; then
>> -        DPDK_VER="19.11"
>> +        DPDK_VER="19.11.2"
>>      fi
>>      install_dpdk $DPDK_VER
>>      if [ "$CC" = "clang" ]; then
>> diff --git a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
>> index e5cef3915..7c826f239 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
>> @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ Q: What DPDK version does each Open vSwitch release work with?
>>      2.10.x       17.11.4
>>      2.11.x       18.11.6
>>      2.12.x       18.11.6
>> -    2.13.x       19.11.0
>> +    2.13.x       19.11.2
>>      ============ =======
>>  
>>  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 dbf88ec43..90eaa8aa2 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 19.11
>> +- DPDK 19.11.2
>>  
>>  - 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 https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-19.11.tar.xz
>> -       $ tar xf dpdk-19.11.tar.xz
>> -       $ export DPDK_DIR=/usr/src/dpdk-19.11
>> +       $ wget https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-19.11.2.tar.xz
>> +       $ tar xf dpdk-19.11.2.tar.xz
>> +       $ export DPDK_DIR=/usr/src/dpdk-stable-19.11.2
>>         $ 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 c6c6fd8bd..4bc5aef59 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 https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-19.11.tar.xz
>> -    $ tar xf dpdk-19.11.tar.xz
>> -    $ export DPDK_DIR=/root/dpdk/dpdk-19.11
>> +    $ wget https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-19.11.2.tar.xz
>> +    $ tar xf dpdk-19.11.2.tar.xz
>> +    $ export DPDK_DIR=/root/dpdk/dpdk-stable-19.11.2
>>      $ 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 0116b3ea0..162fbc991 100644
>> --- a/NEWS
>> +++ b/NEWS
>> @@ -23,7 +23,10 @@ Post-v2.13.0
>>     - Tunnels: TC Flower offload
>>       * Tunnel Local endpoint address masked match are supported.
>>       * Tunnel Romte endpoint address masked match are supported.
>> -
>> +   - DPDK:
>> +     * OVS validated with DPDK 19.11.2, due to the inclusion of fixes for
>> +       CVE-2020-10722, CVE-2020-10723, CVE-2020-10724, CVE-2020-10725 and
>> +       CVE-2020-10726, this DPDK version is strongly recommended to be used.
>>  

Just noticed there is already a DPDK section in the NEWS, I guess you
can add this text to that.

>>  v2.13.0 - 14 Feb 2020
>>  ---------------------
>>



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