[v2] update Windows roadmap
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Add the current status and the actual roadmap, remove completed entries.
More detailed plan in the mailing list:
https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-August/217463.html
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
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v2: improve wording, fix typos, remove improbable items (Thomas).
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1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)
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11/09/2021 01:07, Dmitry Kozlyuk:
> Add the current status and the actual roadmap, remove completed entries.
> More detailed plan in the mailing list:
> https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-August/217463.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
> ---
> v2: improve wording, fix typos, remove improbable items (Thomas).
Applied, thanks.
Note: fixed capitalization VMWare -> VMware
@@ -4,11 +4,20 @@ title = "Windows Plan"
## DPDK porting on Windows
-The preparation work is hosted in the
-[Windows draft repository](//git.dpdk.org/draft/dpdk-draft-windows/).
-The upstream work is being merged in two repositories,
-splitting userspace and kernel code:
+### Status
+
+DPDK 21.08 supports running testpmd and examples
+with mlx5, i40e, and ice HW, vmxnet3 paravirtual devices in QEMU,
+or with PCAP virtual devices.
+It requires yet unsigned kernel-mode drivers to run (except mlx5).
+Only network PMDs are currently enabled.
+
+Current focus is friction-less consumption by end-users and supporting more HW.
+Multi-process, and hence dpdk-pdump support is neither available nor scheduled.
+
+[Windows draft repository](//git.dpdk.org/draft/dpdk-draft-windows/)
+is suspended, all development happens in the upstream:
- [dpdk](//git.dpdk.org/dpdk/)
- [dpdk-kmods](//git.dpdk.org/dpdk-kmods/)
@@ -19,8 +28,8 @@ is updated along with upstream progress.
The PMD-specific documentation should be updated in the common
[NIC drivers guide](//doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/index.html).
-### Roadmap for Windows Support {#roadmap}
-----
+
+### Roadmap {#roadmap}
{{% notice info %}}
Features and milestones may be noted here.
@@ -28,108 +37,39 @@ This is not a commitment but plan of work.
This list is obviously neither complete nor guaranteed.
{{% /notice %}}
-#### Background Tasks (compilers issues) {#background}
-
-✅ meson with clang + msvc linker: <https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/6483>
-
-- linking and performance of [per-core variables with shared libraries](//mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-February/157933.html)
-
-✅ structure alignment: <https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24383>
-
-- AVX bug in gcc: <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54412>
-
-#### 2019-05-01
-
-✅ helloworld application with meson+clang
-
-#### 2020-03-01
-
-✅ MinGW integration
-
-✅ EAL common directory split
-
-#### 2020-04-01
-
-✅ virt2phys kmod
-
-#### 2020-05-01
-
-✅ EAL log option
-
-✅ EAL timer
-
-✅ EAL basic memory management
-
-✅ PCI general probing
-
-✅ PCI bifurcated model
-
-✅ cmdline
-
-✅ Mellanox DevX library linkage
-
-#### 2020-06-01
-
-- tracing
-
-✅ mempool
-
-✅ mbuf
-
-✅ netuio source code hosting
-
-- netuio binary hosting
-- netuio documentation
-
-✅ PCI netuio model
-
-✅ Mellanox glue layer
-
-#### 2020-07-01
-
-✅ ethdev
-
-- testpmd
-- ring PMD
-- pcap or other vdev PMD
-- optionnally virtio PMD
-
-#### 2020-08-01
-
-- unit tests (app/test/)
-
-✅ Intel i40e PMD Rx/Tx
-
-✅ Mellanox mlx5 PMD Rx/Tx
-
-#### 2020-09-01
-- Functional tests in CI
+#### General Availability
-✅ Mellanox documentation
+* Ability to install and consume user-space static build
+ - [Meson 0.58+ issue](https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/8981)
+ - [pkg-config file for Npcap](https://github.com/nmap/npcap/issues/299)
+* [Working user-space shared build (DLL)][dll]
+* Process, pipeline, and download area for signed builds of kernel-mode drivers
+ - virt2phys security hardening
-- doc compilation (doxygen + sphinx)
+[dll]: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-July/214105.html
-✅ usertools/dpdk-devbind.py
-#### 2020-12-01
+#### Feature Support
-- Mellanox rte_flow features
+* Interrupt handling for netuio
+* vmxnet3 PMD with VMWare hypervisor
+* virtio PMD
+* ena PMD
+* mlx5 PMD rte_flow features
+* Unit-tests
+* Tracing
+* Documentation build (doxygen + sphinx)
-✅ buildtools/pmdinfogen/
-✅ usertools/dpdk-telemetry.py
+#### Miscellaneous
-#### 2021-02-01
+* Tracing for netuio to simplify troubleshooting for end-users
+* Improved documentation and automated scripts
+* [AVX bug in GCC](https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54412)
+* Functional tests in CI
-✅ DPDK 21.02
-#### Future {#future}
+#### Future (unscheduled) {#future}
-- advanced memory management
-- multi-process support
-- Broadcom bnxt PMD
-- Chelsio cxgbe PMD
-- Cisco enic PMD
-- Intel ice PMD
-- Marvell qede PMD
+- Advanced memory management: IOMMU, inbox kernel-mode driver