Windows Plan
DPDK porting on Windows
The preparation work is hosted in the Windows draft repository.
The upstream work is being merged in two repositories, splitting userspace and kernel code:
The DPDK documentation for Windows is updated along with upstream progress.
The PMD-specific documentation should be updated in the common NIC drivers guide.
Roadmap for Windows Support
Features and milestones may be noted here. This is not a commitment but plan of work. This list is obviously neither complete nor guaranteed.
Background Tasks (compilers issues)
✅ meson with clang + msvc linker: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/6483
- linking and performance of per-lcore variables with shared libraries
- structure alignment: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24383
- AVX bug in gcc: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54412
2019-05-01
✅ helloworld application with meson+clang
2020-03-01
- MinGW integration
- EAL common directory split
2020-04-01
- EAL basic memory management
- PCI general probing
- PCI bifurcated model
- netuio source code hosting
- netuio binary hosting
- netuio documentation
2020-05-01
- EAL advanced memory management
- PCI netuio model
- mempool
- cmdline
- Mellanox DevX library linkage
2020-06-01
- mbuf
- ethdev
- Mellanox glue layer
2020-07-01
- testpmd
- ring PMD
- pcap or other vdev PMD
- optionnally virtio PMD
- Mellanox DevX layer
2020-08-01
- Broadcom bnxt PMD Rx/Tx
- Chelsio cxgbe PMD Rx/Tx
- Cisco enic PMD Rx/Tx
- Intel i40e PMD Rx/Tx
- Marvell qede PMD Rx/Tx
- Mellanox mlx5 PMD Rx/Tx
- Mellanox documentation
2020-09-01
- Mellanox rte_flow features
- Functional tests in CI
2020-10-01
- only bug fixing after this point
2020-11-01
- DPDK 20.11 LTS release
Future
- Intel ice PMD
- multi-process support