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Bug 1889737 - Write a release note for Tech Preview XDP features in RHEL 8.3
Summary: Write a release note for Tech Preview XDP features in RHEL 8.3
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: doc-Release_Notes-8-en-US
Version: 8.3
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.3
Assignee: Marc Muehlfeld
QA Contact: RHEL DPM
Marc Muehlfeld
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-10-20 13:36 UTC by Marc Muehlfeld
Modified: 2023-01-17 11:50 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Technology Preview
Doc Text:
.XDP features that are available as Technology Preview Red Hat provides the usage of the following eXpress Data Path (XDP) features as unsupported Technology Preview: * Loading XDP programs on architectures other than AMD and Intel 64-bit. Note that the `libxdp` library is not available for architectures other than AMD and Intel 64-bit. * The XDP hardware offloading.
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Last Closed: 2020-11-06 08:40:01 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Marc Muehlfeld 2020-10-20 13:36:33 UTC 
Write a release note for Tech Preview XDP features in RHEL 8.3
Comment 1 Marc Muehlfeld 2020-11-06 08:40:01 UTC 
The RN is now available on the Customer Portal:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/technology_previews#BZ-1889737
Comment 2 Jiri Benc 2021-04-22 08:39:40 UTC 
Update for RHEL 8.4:

For XDP, we're now supporting also the redirect and tx verdicts. Meaning the sentence "The XDP_TX and XDP_REDIRECT return codes." should be removed from the Technology Previews / Networking chapter.

The "XDP is conditionally supported" section in New Features / Networking sections should be adjusted. I propose the following wording: 

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With this release, the XDP_TX and XDP_REDIRECT return codes are now supported in XDP programs.

Red Hat supports the eXpress Data Path (XDP) feature only if all of the following conditions apply:

* You load the XDP program on an AMD or Intel 64-bit architecture
* You use the libxdp library to load the program into the kernel
* The XDP program does not use the XDP hardware offloading 

For details about unsupported XDP features, see Overview of XDP features that are available as Technology Preview.
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Longer term, we'll need to find a better place for the support conditions. The libxdp condition is going to stay for the RHEL 8 lifetime and having this in the New Features forever does not look correct.

For some reason, the 8.3 release notes contain two sections in the Technology Previews / Networking chapter: "XDP available as a Technology Preview" and "XDP features that are available as Technology Preview". These should be merged.
Comment 3 Marc Muehlfeld 2021-04-22 09:15:31 UTC 
> For some reason, the 8.3 release notes contain two sections in the Technology Previews / Networking chapter: "XDP available as a Technology Preview" and "XDP features
> that are available as Technology Preview". These should be merged.

I merged the RN from this BZ and BZ#1503672.
The merged RN is now here in this BZ (see DocText field)


To track the "what-is-supported-in-8.4" part of XDP, I created BZ#1952421 for the corresponding RN.
Comment 8 Marc Muehlfeld 2022-05-02 13:25:21 UTC 
The KI (BZ#1880268) was fixed in RHEL 8.4. I removed the reference to the KI from the RN.
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