DPDK LTS release

[Kevin Traynor]

On 23/02/2022 16:16, Kamaraj P wrote:
> Thanks Kevin.
> 
> Apart from release notes to identify changes of DPDK version from 19.11 to
> 21.11, is there any any major design changes in DPDK ? for example (memory
> management, mempool allocation behavior etc)
> Please share if there is any pointers.
> 

Notably the make based build system was removed in 20.11, but you'll 
need to check the release notes [0] to see what else impacts you. In 
particular the 20.11 and 21.11 were ABI breaking releases.

[0] http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/index.html


> Thanks,
> Kamaraj
> 
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 3:53 PM Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 21/02/2022 06:47, Kamaraj P wrote:
>>> Hi Team,
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> We are planning to upgrade the DPDK stable LTS version from DPDK19.11.
>>> Could you please suggest what would be the stable LTS version of DPDK ?
>>>
>>
>> If you are looking for an LTS version that will be maintained for the
>> longest time in the future, then you can jump to the latest DPDK LTS
>> series 21.11.
>>
>> It will be maintained with backported bugfixes until at least November
>> 2023, but we are trialing longer support on some LTS releases so there
>> is a possibility it might be extended.
>>
>> If you take a look at http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#stable you can see
>> the current roadmap of how long each LTS version is maintained for.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Kevin.
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Kamaraj
>>>
>>
>>
>