Features for Release VPP 16.09

This section lists those features that became available in VPP Release 16.09:

  • Integrated July 2016 DPDK release
    • DPDK-vhost is depreciated pending a complete rework of the original integration and addressing of rx performance deltas
    • Patches required for DPDK 16.07:
      • Correctly setting the Packet Type in the IGB, IXGBE and i40e drivers
      • Correctly setting checksum in the i40e driver
      • NXP DPAA2 PMD Driver
      • rte_delay (yield) functionality
  • Add “in tree” plugins:
    • IPv6 ILA
    • iOAM
    • Load Balancer
    • SNAT
  • High-performance (line-rate) “neutron like” L4 port-filtering
  • API refactoring - addressing some of the issues around JVPP bindings
    • Accommodating plugins (e.g. NSH_SFC)
    • Binding for python
  • LISP
    • L2 LISP overlays
    • Multitenancy
    • Multihoming
    • RTR mode
    • Map-resolver failover algorithm
  • Support 64-bit vector lengths, huge shared-memory segments
  • Dynamic IP Feature ordering
    • IP Features can now specify features they appear before and after
  • 16.09 Builds
    • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Trusty Tahr
    • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Xenial Xerus
    • CentOS 7
    • More information on VPP wiki
  • Performance, characterize and document performance for this release (more information on CSIT page)
    • IPv4 and IPv6 Scale - performance tests
      • Bidirectional 10k/100k/1M flows
      • 64B,570B, 1518B,9000B packet sizes
    • IPv6 iACL - performance
      • DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with IPv6 routing, two static IPv6 /64 routes and IPv6 iAcl security whitelist ingress /64 filter entries applied on links
      • TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 253 flows per flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv6 header and generated payload
      • MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node interfaces
    • L2XC VXLANoIPv4 - performance
      • DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 cross-connect. VXLAN tunnels are configured between L2XCs on DUT1 and DUT2
      • TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 253 flows per flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with IP protocol=61 and generated payload
      • MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node interfaces
  • Documentation
    • Autogenerated CLI documentation
    • Using doxygen to automate API/Node documentation
    • (available online)
  • Resolved all static analysis issues found by Coverity
    • Beginning of 16.09 cycle: 505 issues
    • Release: 0 outstanding issues

Known issues

For the full list of issues please refer to fd.io JIRA.

Issues fixed

For the full list of fixed issues please refer to: