[ovs-dev] Bug#974588: openvswitch: DPDK 20.11 support and transition for bullseye

Christian Ehrhardt christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com
Thu Jan 7 15:54:57 UTC 2021


On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 5:12 PM Stokes, Ian <ian.stokes at intel.com> wrote:
>
> > > I proposed an earlier upload from git as a temporary measure to ease
> > > the ABI transition. I worry that an ABI transition 2 months after the
> > > transition freeze is too much to ask, even if it only affects
> > > src:openvswitch (and src:collectd, but that's a straightforward
> > > rebuild, no changes needed).
> > > Nonetheless, let's see if the release team considers this acceptable.
> >
> > Two things worth mentioning:
> > 1. We will have support for DPDK 20.11 in OVS by next week by Ian Stokes
> >     This was already validated vs 20.11-rc4
>
> Hi Christian,
>
> Just to clarify this, I think we will have  an RFC patch to support DPDK 20.11 with OVS master by either tomorrow or early next week. We are just waiting on review of the patch below
>
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/patch/20201119123554.44684-1-sunil.pai.g@intel.com/
>
> But just to clarify, once I release the RFC patch that does not mean it will be up streamed immediately to OVS master, just that it will be available for review by the community at that stage.
>
> Support for DPDK 20.11 in OVS master will not be available until the community has signed off on the patch itself (which may require patch revisions), this may take longer than next week.

Hi,
as an FYI Ubuntu moved to recent commit def6eb1ea and for us it seems
to work fine so far.
See the package at:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvswitch/2.15.0~git20210104.def6eb1ea-0ubuntu3

With that confirmed and the feature freeze coming soon. Would you mind
doing a similar upload to Debian-experimental soon'ish?

> Regards
> Ian
>
>


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Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd


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