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: