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