By Honnappa Nagarahalli As an increasingly higher number of cores are packed together in a SoC, thread synchronization plays a key role in scalability of the application. In the context of networking applications, because of the partitioning of the application into control plane (write-mostly threads) and data plane (read-mostly threads), reader-writer concurrency is a frequently…
By Thomas Monjalon, DPDK Tech Board A new DPDK release is now available, 21.05: https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-21.05.tar.xz It was a quite big cycle, as is typical with our May releases: 1352 commits from 176 authors 2396 files changed, 134413 insertions(+), 63913 deletions(-) There are no plans to start a maintenance branch for 21.05, and this version is…
We are thrilled to announce that our recent DPDK Summit APAC was the first Linux Foundation event to have earned a Gold Diversity & Inclusion badge from the Linux Foundation’s CHAOSS project! Event organizers can apply for an Event D&I Badge for reasons of leadership, self-reflection, and self-improvement on issues critical to fostering more diverse…
By Honnappa Nagarahalli DPDK is widely used across the technology industry to accelerate packet processing on a varied mix of platforms and architectures. However, all architectures are not created the same way and they all have differing characteristics. For frameworks such as DPDK, it is a challenge to efficiently use specific architecture features without impacting…
By Thomas Monjalon from the DPDK Tech Board The DPDK community has issued a new release, 21.02: https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-21.02.tar.xz It was a light period as February releases of the 2 previous years: 941 commits from 140 authors 1208 files changed, 53571 insertions(+), 21946 deletions(-) There are no plans to start a maintenance branch for 21.02. This…
In DPDK 20.11, the DPDK community adopted ABI stable releases with the aim of easing the adoption of new features for DPDK users. If ABI stable releases is a new concept for you, or to simply refresh your memory, please read the previous post on Why is ABI Stability Important? The DPDK community put the policies and mechanisms…
To learn more about Microsoft, DPDK’s newest Gold member, and how they are working within the DPDK community, we sat down with Omar Cardona, Doug Stamper and Harini Ramakrishnan from the Core Networking team for a Q&A session. Read below to see how Microsoft collaborates with DPDK. Can you tell us a little about your…
The DPDK Project has had an active third quarter thus far with the DPDK Userspace Summit in September, release of 20.11 release (the biggest DPDK release yet!), and the Governing Board focused on 2021 planning and budgeting during an October 13 virtual meeting. A release candidate (RC3) for 20.11 went out last week, and turned…
A new major DPDK release is now available: https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-20.11.tar.xz Our Thanksgiving gift to the ecosystem is the biggest DPDK release ever, with: 2195 commits from 214 authors 2665 files changed, 269546 insertions(+), 107426 deletions(-) The branch 20.11 should be supported for at least two years, making it recommended for system integration and deployment. The maintainer…
