Features for Release VPP 19.04

Infrastructure

• DPDK 19.02 integration
• Buffer manager rework and improvements
• Python3 migration (work in progress)
  • vppapigen
  • Python API wrappers
  • Docs generation
  • vpp_config
  • "make test" python3 readiness and refactoring
• Add "make test-gcov" target to main Makefile
• Refactor multiarch code
• vfctl script: bind VF to vfio-pci after VF is created
• cmake cross-compilation support
• CLI control of graph dispatch elogs
• AppImage packaging (disabled by default)
• Complete upstreaming of wireshark dissector
• Remove JVPP which is now an FD.io project
• Punt infra: manage dispatch of exception packets

VNET & Plugins

• BVI Interface
• Deprecate TAP cli
• Experimental TAP interface TCP segmentation offload
• Vmxnet3 driver plugin
• LACP passive mode
• ACL plugin refactoring
• RDMA (ibverb) driver plugin - MLX5 with multiqueue
• IPSEC
  • Intel IPSEC-MB engine plugin
  • Tunnel fragmentation
  • CLI improvements
  • Performance improvements
  • API modernisation and improvements
  • New Tests and test refactoring
• Crypto
  • Introduce crypto infra
  • crypto_ia32 plugin
  • Add support for AEAD and AES-GCM
  • Implement rfc4231 test cases
  • Implement crypto tests per RFC2202
• Perfmon improvements
  • Python to C parser for intel CPUs
  • 2-way parallel stat collection
  • Collect data on selected thread(s)

Host stack

• Improve ldp/vls/vcl support for multi-process and multi-threaded applications
• Major refactor/cleanup of session layer
• Refactor cut-through sessions to use a custom transport
• Baseline QUIC transport support