[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] 19.11.8 patches review and test

Christian Ehrhardt christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com
Mon Apr 12 11:12:46 CEST 2021


On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 9:44 AM Christian Ehrhardt
<christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.8.
>
> The planned date for the final release is 16th April.
>
> Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report
> any issues/results with reply-all to this mail. For the final release
> the fixes and reported validations will be added to the release notes.
>
> Note:
> This is a special interim release not following the releases of recent
> mainline (that was 19.11.7). Instead this addresses issues with >=19.11.6
> identified and discussed in:
>   http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-March/029418.html
>
> Testing-Note:
> The only changes this release has over the former one are about linking.
> We switch back to how it was <=19.11.6 since it regressed some use-cases.
> The most known one at the moment is building OVS 2.13 vs a DPDK that was
> built with meson. It seems that make-based DPDK builds are unaffected.
> Due to that this verification phase should not so much be about the usual
> performance, functionality, ... (I'm happy if you run those, but they are
> not strictly required). Instead the focus should mostly about buildability
> via the various possible combinations that exist.

I can confirm that with 19.11.8 the build of OpenVswitch vs a
meson-built DPDK works again.
Tested on OVS 2.13.3 vs DPDK 19.11.8-rc1 in Ubuntu 20.04 and 20.10 on
all supported
architectures (amd64,armhf,arm64 and ppc64el - the others
s390x/riscv64 don't have DPDK built).


> A release candidate tarball can be found at:
>
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v19.11.8-rc1
>
> These patches are located at branch 19.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>
> Thanks.
>
> Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
>
> ---
> Christian Ehrhardt (7):
>       Revert "Revert "Revert "build/pkg-config: prevent overlinking"""
>       Revert "Revert "Revert "build/pkg-config: improve static linking flags"""
>       Revert "Revert "Revert "build/pkg-config: output drivers first for static build"""
>       Revert "Revert "Revert "build/pkg-config: move pkg-config file creation"""
>       Revert "Revert "Revert "build: always link whole DPDK static libraries"""
>       Revert "Revert "Revert "devtools: test static linkage with pkg-config"""
>       Regenerate meson.build changes required due to reverts



-- 
Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd


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