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authorIan Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>2022-12-05 21:31:10 +0000
committerIan Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>2022-12-06 15:06:28 +0000
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parent55b9507e6824b935ffa0205fc7c7bebfe4e54279 (diff)
downloadopenvswitch-a77c7796f23a76190b61e2109a009df980253b0f.tar.gz
dpdk: Update to use v22.11.1.
This commit add support to for DPDK v22.11.1, it includes the following changes. 1. ci: Reduce DPDK compilation time. 2. system-dpdk: Update vhost tests to be compatible with DPDK 22.07. http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/list/?series=316528 3. system-dpdk: Update vhost tests to be compatible with DPDK 22.07. http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/list/?series=311332 4. netdev-dpdk: Report device bus specific information. 5. netdev-dpdk: Drop reference to Rx header split. http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/list/?series=321808 In addition documentation was also updated in this commit for use with DPDK v22.11.1. The Debian shared DPDK compilation test is removed as part of this patch due to a packaging requirement. Once DPDK v22.11.1 is available in Debian repositories it should be re-enabled in OVS. For credit all authors of the original commits to 'dpdk-latest' with the above changes have been added as co-authors for this commit Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> Co-authored-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sunil Pai G <sunil.pai.g@intel.com> Co-authored-by: Sunil Pai G <sunil.pai.g@intel.com> Tested-by: Michael Phelan <michael.phelan@intel.com> Tested-by: Emma Finn <emma.finn@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
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@@ -9,23 +9,7 @@ Post-v3.0.0
- Windows:
* Conntrack IPv6 fragment support.
- DPDK:
- * OVS validated with DPDK 21.11.2.
- DPDK 21.11.2 contains fixes for the following CVEs:
- CVE-2022-28199 cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-28199
- CVE-2022-2132 cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-2132
- A bug was introduced in DPDK 21.11.1 by the commit
- 01e3dee29c02 ("vhost: fix unsafe vring addresses modifications").
- This bug can cause a deadlock when vIOMMU is enabled and NUMA
- reallocation of the virtqueues happen.
- A fix has been posted and pushed to the DPDK 21.11 branch.
- It can be found here:
- https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220725203206.427083-2-david.marchand@redhat.com/.
- If a user wishes to avoid the issue then it is recommended to use
- DPDK 21.11.0 until the release of DPDK 21.11.3.
- It should be noted that DPDK 21.11.0 does not benefit from the numerous
- bug and CVE fixes addressed since its release.
- If a user wishes to benefit from these fixes it is recommended to use
- DPDK 21.11.2.
+ * Add support for DPDK 22.11.1.
- For the QoS max-rate and STP/RSTP path-cost configuration OVS now assumes
10 Gbps link speed by default in case the actual link speed cannot be
determined. Previously it was 10 Mbps. Values can still be overridden