.. _vpp16.09: ############################### 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 <https://jira.fd.io/>`_. Issues fixed -------------- For the full list of fixed issues please refer to: * fd.io `JIRA <https://jira.fd.io/>`_ * git `commit log <https://git.fd.io/vpp/log/?h=stable/1609>`_