| Nathan Skrzypczak | 9ad39c0 | 2021-08-19 11:38:06 +0200 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | Release notes for VPP 16.09 |
| 2 | =========================== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Features |
| 5 | -------- |
| 6 | |
| 7 | - `Integrated July 2016 DPDK release <http://www.dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.html>`__ |
| 8 | |
| 9 | - DPDK-vhost is depreciated pending a complete rework of the |
| 10 | original integration and addressing of rx performance deltas. |
| 11 | - Patches required for DPDK 16.07: |
| 12 | |
| 13 | - Correctly setting the Packet Type in the IGB, IXGBE and i40e |
| 14 | drivers. |
| 15 | - Correctly setting checksum in the i40e driver. |
| 16 | - NXP DPAA2 PMD Driver. |
| 17 | - rte_delay (yield) functionality. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | - Add “in tree” plugins: |
| 20 | |
| 21 | - IPv6 ILA. |
| 22 | - iOAM. |
| 23 | - Load Balancer. |
| 24 | - SNAT. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | - High-performance (line-rate) “neutron like” L4 port-filtering. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | - API refactoring - addressing some of the issues around JVPP bindings. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | - Accommodating plugins |
| 31 | `(e.g. NSH_SFC) <https://wiki.fd.io/view/NSH_SFC>`__ |
| 32 | - Binding for `python <https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Python_API>`__ |
| 33 | |
| 34 | - LISP |
| 35 | |
| 36 | - L2 LISP overlays |
| 37 | - Multitenancy |
| 38 | - Multihoming |
| 39 | - RTR mode |
| 40 | - Map-resolver failover algorithm |
| 41 | |
| 42 | - Support 64-bit vector lengths, huge shared-memory segments. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | - Dynamic IP Feature ordering |
| 45 | |
| 46 | - IP Features can now specify features they appear before and after |
| 47 | |
| 48 | - 16.09 Builds |
| 49 | |
| 50 | - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Trusty Tahr |
| 51 | - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Xenial Xerus |
| 52 | - CentOS 7 |
| 53 | - More information on `VPP wiki <https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Installing_VPP_binaries_from_packages>`__ |
| 54 | |
| 55 | - Performance, characterize and document performance for this release |
| 56 | `(more information on CSIT page) <https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT>`__ |
| 57 | |
| 58 | - IPv4 and IPv6 Scale - performance tests. |
| 59 | |
| 60 | - Bidirectional 10k/100k/1M flows. |
| 61 | - 64B,570B, 1518B,9000B packet sizes. |
| 62 | |
| 63 | - IPv6 iACL - performance |
| 64 | |
| 65 | - DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with IPv6 routing, two static IPv6 |
| 66 | /64 routes and IPv6 iAcl security whitelist ingress /64 filter |
| 67 | entries applied on links. |
| 68 | - TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per |
| 69 | direction, 253 flows per flow-group) with all packets |
| 70 | containing Ethernet header, IPv6 header and generated payload. |
| 71 | MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node |
| 72 | interfaces. |
| 73 | |
| 74 | - L2XC VXLANoIPv4 - performance |
| 75 | |
| 76 | - DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 cross-connect. VXLAN |
| 77 | tunnels are configured between L2XCs on DUT1 and DUT2. |
| 78 | - TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per |
| 79 | direction, 253 flows per flow-group) with all packets |
| 80 | containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with IP protocol=61 and |
| 81 | generated payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of |
| 82 | the TG node interfaces. |
| 83 | |
| 84 | - Documentation |
| 85 | |
| 86 | - Autogenerated CLI documentation. |
| 87 | - Using doxygen to automate API/Node documentation. |
| 88 | - `(available online) <https://docs.fd.io/vpp/16.09/>`__ |
| 89 | |
| 90 | - Resolved all static analysis issues found by Coverity |
| 91 | |
| 92 | - Beginning of 16.09 cycle: 505 issues. |
| 93 | - Release: 0 outstanding issues. |
| 94 | |
| 95 | Known issues |
| 96 | ------------ |
| 97 | |
| 98 | Issues in fd.io are tracked in `JIRA <https://jira.fd.io>`__. |
| 99 | |
| 100 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 101 | | Issue | Description | |
| 102 | +===================================+===================================+ |
| 103 | | VPP-391 | vpp debug version assert appeared | |
| 104 | | | in the process of start | |
| 105 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 106 | | VPP-380 | Mapping algorithm compute wrong | |
| 107 | | | ea-bits when IPv4 prefix | |
| 108 | | | 0.0.0.0/0 | |
| 109 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 110 | | VPP-371 | load_one_plugin:63: Loaded | |
| 111 | | | plugin: message from vppctl | |
| 112 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 113 | | VPP-367 | vpp packages need to depend on | |
| 114 | | | specific versions of each other | |
| 115 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 116 | | VPP-312 | IP6 FIB gets in indeterminate | |
| 117 | | | state by duplicating commands | |
| 118 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 119 | | VPP-224 | Lookup-in-vrf can not be set | |
| 120 | | | correctly | |
| 121 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 122 | | VPP-206 | Fix classify table delete | |
| 123 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 124 | | VPP-203 | Fix binary API for reading vpp | |
| 125 | | | node graph | |
| 126 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 127 | | VPP-147 | Inconsistent behaviour when | |
| 128 | | | adding L2 FIB filter entry | |
| 129 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 130 | | VPP-99 | VPP doesn’t discard DHCPOFFER | |
| 131 | | | message with wrong XID | |
| 132 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 133 | |
| 134 | Issues fixed |
| 135 | ------------ |
| 136 | |
| 137 | Issues in fd.io are tracked in `JIRA <https://jira.fd.io>`__. |
| 138 | |
| 139 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 140 | | Issue | Description | |
| 141 | +===================================+===================================+ |
| 142 | | VPP-396 | Ubuntu systems Graphviz bug | |
| 143 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 144 | | VPP-390 | vpp-lib rpm fails to include | |
| 145 | | | \*.so symlinks, causing linking | |
| 146 | | | problems with out of tree builds | |
| 147 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 148 | | VPP-388 | IPSec output feature assumes | |
| 149 | | | packets have been ethernet | |
| 150 | | | rewritten | |
| 151 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 152 | | VPP-385 | ARP for indirect adjacencies not | |
| 153 | | | working correctly | |
| 154 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 155 | | VPP-361 | Memory leak on delete of VXLAN | |
| 156 | | | over IPv6 tunnel | |
| 157 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 158 | | VPP-357 | VNI not set correctly when | |
| 159 | | | removing LISP fwd entries | |
| 160 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 161 | | VPP-349 | sw_interface_vhost_user_dump not | |
| 162 | | | working | |
| 163 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 164 | | VPP-345 | net/enic: bad L4 checksum ptype | |
| 165 | | | set on ICMP packets | |
| 166 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 167 | | VPP-340 | MAP-T wrong destination address | |
| 168 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 169 | | VPP-330 | Use fifo to store LISP pending | |
| 170 | | | map-requests | |
| 171 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 172 | | VPP-326 | map_add_domain VAT command: | |
| 173 | | | unable to configure domain with | |
| 174 | | | mtu parameter | |
| 175 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 176 | | VPP-318 | The map_add_domain VAT command | |
| 177 | | | accepts invalid arguments | |
| 178 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 179 | | VPP-315 | Fix “show vxlan-gpe” issue | |
| 180 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 181 | | VPP-310 | Mapping algorithm compute wrong | |
| 182 | | | ea-bits | |
| 183 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 184 | | VPP-239 | LISP IP forwarding does not tag | |
| 185 | | | packets that hit negative mapping | |
| 186 | | | entries | |
| 187 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 188 | | VPP-235 | Invalid help in VAT for | |
| 189 | | | sw_interface_set_l2_bridge | |
| 190 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 191 | | VPP-228 | Mapping algorithm sends packet to | |
| 192 | | | wrong IPv6 address | |
| 193 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 194 | | VPP-214 | vpp-api-test: | |
| 195 | | | api_ipsec_sad_add_del_entry: | |
| 196 | | | vector “ck” not initialized | |
| 197 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 198 | | VPP-200 | VPP - TAP port create problem | |
| 199 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 200 | | VPP-189 | Coverity Issues for 16.09 | |
| 201 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 202 | | VPP-184 | u16 translating to char ,not | |
| 203 | | | short | |
| 204 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 205 | | VPP-179 | Adjacency share-count botch | |
| 206 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 207 | | VPP-163 | “show ip6 interface” ignores | |
| 208 | | | non-global addresses | |
| 209 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 210 | | VPP-155 | Netmap: Inconsistency in | |
| 211 | | | interface state between “show | |
| 212 | | | hardware” and “show interface” | |
| 213 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 214 | | VPP-145 | Dynamically compute IP feature | |
| 215 | | | ordering based on constraints | |
| 216 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 217 | | VPP-137 | VPP sends ARP with wrong | |
| 218 | | | requested IP | |
| 219 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 220 | | VPP-118 | JVpp: 0 length arrays not handled | |
| 221 | | | properly in VPP responses | |
| 222 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 223 | | VPP-112 | linux kernel info missing from | |
| 224 | | | build log | |
| 225 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 226 | | VPP-110 | vxlan encap node should never | |
| 227 | | | touch a deleted tunnel | |
| 228 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 229 | | VPP-107 | RPM build broken in master | |
| 230 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 231 | | VPP-92 | segment routing is not properly | |
| 232 | | | filling out the segment list | |
| 233 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 234 | | VPP-91 | segment routing add/del tunnel | |
| 235 | | | lookup doesn’t work | |
| 236 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 237 | | VPP-84 | af_packet throws a fatal error on | |
| 238 | | | EAGAIN | |
| 239 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 240 | | VPP-74 | Clang compile fails due to | |
| 241 | | | warning in vlib/unix/cli.c | |
| 242 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 243 | | VPP-64 | Top level “make pkg-deb” fails if | |
| 244 | | | CDPATH is set in user env. | |
| 245 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 246 | | VPP-48 | Traceroute does not terminate | |
| 247 | | | when VPP is the target | |
| 248 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |
| 249 | | VPP-23 | CLI pager does not gracefully | |
| 250 | | | handle lines longer than the | |
| 251 | | | terminal width | |
| 252 | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ |