Release Progress Tracking 202106

202106 Features Tracking

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Feature	HLD Review Date	Owner	Code Review Owner	Code Review Date	Code PR Status	SAI Change	Priority/Conf (High/Low)
Telemetry for Multi-ASIC		MSFT	Intel		Single telemetry sever to aggregate data from multiple Redis DB	TBD
Dynamic policy based hashing	04/13/2021	Nvidia/MSFT	MSFT/Aviz	5/15/21	Hash packets on custom fields. PR Add YANG model&Policy Based Hashing HLD	Yes	High
DHCP relay IPv6 support	03/30/2021	Nvidia	BRCM	5/10/21	Currently DHCP relay supports only IPv4. The idea is to extend the support to IPv6 and it should work for both as the same time. Also, currently DHCP relay is enabled only based on the Type in the METADATA and it must be ‘ToRRouter’. We will remove this restriction and will integrate it with copp manager so user can decide if to have DHCP relay or not regardless of the device type	No	High
App extension CLI generation tool	4/16/21	Nvidia	BRCM/ MSFT	ETA: 5/30/21	2nd phase of the application extension: a CLI generation tool for application extension programs. An improvements following the current infra available	No	High
App extension with warmboot awareness	Included in #682	Nvidia	BRCM/ MSFT	4/30/21	2nd phase of the application extension: warmboot awareness and integration of an application extension that requires warmboot support		High
Add FRR running configuration to tech support	N/A(email update)	Nvidia	BRCM	ETA: 5/30/21	Improve the FRR information in the tech support following the below github issue 5067	No	High
Enable/Disable auto negotiation and speed setting with number of lanes	1/19/2021	Nvidia	BRCM/ Dell/ Intel [Need platform vendor reviewers]	March/ 4/30/21	Add new CLIs to enable/disable auto negotiation per interface as well as setting the number of lanes per requested speed. Design doc and Yang model:Port auto negotiation HLD; Enhance the port yang model with new port fields: adv_speeds, interface_type and adv_interface_types CLI and SWSS change: CLI support for port auto negotiation Add port auto negotiation support to swss Regression test case: Add test cases for port auto negotiation feature	SAI API is already part of 1.7	High
TPID config support SONiC TPID Configuration Support by gechiang · Pull Request #681	Oct-20	MSFT	Nvidia- tbd/ BRCM	Need Info	Allow us to covert our PTF fanout switches to run SONiC OS	Yes	High
Deprecating Python2 platform daemons	No HLD	MSFT [Vendors will have to support]	Nvidia-tbd	Need Info	All platform daemons will run using Python 3. Python 2 support  will be removed. Vendors must build and install Python 3 sonic-platform packages. N/A – No HLD. Some vendors are already building/installing Python 3 sonic-platform packages, so there are a number of examples	N/A
MACSec support in Chassis	03/30/2021	MSFT	BRCM/ Juniper		26 - Open
MACSEC enhancement: primary & fallback case	3/30/2021	MSFT	BRCM/ Juniper		MACsec can enable primary and fallback Connectivity Association Keys(CAK) at a same time. Meanwhile the primary and fallback key can be switched or replaced without any outage. PR's - 403, 193, 5700, 18, 22, 434, 1475, 1474, 713, 714, 715,716, 717, 719, 704, 684, 722 & 755 - Merged	No
Error handling (swss)	3/19/2021	MSFT	Nvidia/ BRCM	5/15/2021	Handle SAI failures in orchagent. [Ques: feature was discussed before, will we have new HLD or existing HLD?]	No
SONiC YANG model	4/30/2021	MSFT	MSFT/ YANG WG	Need new ETA	Build a full and complete YANG model for SONiC configDB New Working group: To be discussed in [email protected], please join subgroup to learn more.	No
New branch creation for Debian11	(No HLD)	MSFT	MSFT		Create initial testing image and Debian 11 branch for community to integrate with respective platform drivers, SAI etc. Debian11 support is targeted for 202112 release. [Will be continued in 202112]	No
(Test) Testbed v2	Reviewed	MSFT	Confirm with Test subgroup	TBD	Improve testbed and deployment management	No
Testcase/Testbed Infrastructure	TBD	MSFT	Confirm with Test subgroup		New test cases and infrastructure improvement [Define scope ]	No
SONiC fanout support	TBD	MSFT		TBD	Change fanout switch o.s to SONiC.	No
Inband mgmt VRF	2/24/2021	DELL	MSFT		HLD pending for review (#638)		High
SRv6 support	04/12/2021 (Com: 5/11/2021)	Intel/ Alibaba	Juniper- tbd/ Cisco- tbd	5/25/2021	SONiC/SAI support for linux static route+SRV6 encapsulation. To be discussed in sonic-mpls-workgroup. Intel will contribute dataplane support; Alibaba will contribute control plane support	Yes	High
SONiC for MPLS Dataplane	3/2/2021	Juniper	Intel/ Metaswitch- tbd/ Confirm with MPLS WG	Need Info	SONiC support for MPLS dataplane.	Yes, SAI discussion on going	High
Better route scalability with multiple next-hops	1/26/2021	Metaswitch	BRCM	Need Info	Split next hop groups out of routing table (back-compatibly).	No
Enabling IS-IS in the dataplane	Need Info	Metaswitch	Confirm with MPLS WG	Need Info	Getting IS-IS PDUs to the control plane. To be discussed in sonic-mpls-workgroup	Yes (new enum value)
Class-based forwarding	Need Info	Metaswitch	Confirm with MPLS WG	Need Info	Policy-based tunnel selection.To be discussed in sonic-mpls-workgroup(Might move to 202112 release)	Yes
IPv6 Link Local and BGP Unnumbered	6/2/2020	BRCM	MSFT/ DELL	4/10/21	Correct operation of manually and automatically generated IPv6 link-local addresses on routing interfaces, including routing operation across them. Includes support for RFC 5549, allowing IPv4 routes to be advertized through an IPv6 next hop. PR 5584,1463&1159	No	High
MC-LAG (L2)	5/5/2020	BRCM	Intel/ MSFT/ Innovium/ DELL	4/10/2021	Full L2 support. Also support for L3 protocols (e.g. BGP, BFD) across an MC-LAG. Dependency upon "L2 functional and performance enhancements" item. 202012 carry-over item - Code PRs in review. MCLAG HLD 596 - Open, Iccpd 4819 - Review done, comments addressed, 1349 needs to go in first, Swss 1331 - Change Requested, Sonic-utilities (click CLI) 1138 - Open, Mclag-syncd 1349 - NotYetApproved & NeedsConflictResolutions, Swss-common 405 - Merged, Mgmt-framework 59 – Merge Pending, Mgmt-common 25 – FinalReviewAndApprovalPending.	No	High
Storm Control (BUM)	4/6/2021	BRCM	MSFT/ Innovium	4/10/21	Independently rate limit ingress Broadcast, Multicast and Unknown Unicast traffic on a bits-per-second basis. IS-CLI configuration PR 1306, 346, 928	No	Pri: Low
RADIUS AAA	10/29/2019	BRCM	Dell	4/10/21	Support Authentication services for SONiC, similar to those offered by TACACS+ today. Can also get the privilege level of an authenticated management user from the RADIUS server response. Can operate in the Mgmt VRF PR 4220, 1521	No	Pri: High
STP/PVST	6/4/2019	BRCM	TBD	4/10/21	Spanning tree; Pre-requisite for RPVST+, PR 885, 529	No	Conf: High Pri: Low
L2 functional and performance enhancements	5/21/2019	BRCM	MSFT- tbd DELL - tbd (related to MC-LAG)	4/10/21	FDB flush, MAC move, FDB aging time configuration, Static FDB configuration and VLAN Range configuration Existing code PRs: -885 529, 114	No	High
PDK - Platform Development Environment	7/9/2019	BRCM	MSFT	4/10/21	Optimizes platform driver and plugin development along with static platform configuration data testing. 202012 carry-over item; Code PRs are done and well-advanced, but remaining comment needs to be resolved on PR3778, 28, 107	No	High
Broadcom silicon common config	TBD	BRCM	DELL - tbd	4/10/21	Per-switching silicon Common config for Broadcom Supported Platforms - this is totally Broadcom specific PR 693, 5818	No	High
PCIe Monitoring HLD PR-Merged HLD PR-Merged	11/17/2020	MSFT/ Dell			Deferred from 202012 5000-Merged 60-Merged 1169- In Review 100- In Review 144- In Review		Conf: High
IPSEC support		Intel			Subgroup Meeting to be scheduled
Event-mgmt infra	Need ETA	DELL	Need Info	Need Info	A centralized framework for applications in SONiC network operating system to raise “events” and store them for NBIs to consume.
Klish CLI for show-tech support	4/6/2021	DELL	Need Info	Need Info	Klish CLI for show-tech support using the new mgmt.-infra framework		High
App extension with Orchagent/SWSS		Nvidia	BRCM/ MSFT	Deferred	2nd phase of the application extension: dynamically adds logic to swss/orchagent so additional use applications can be developers developed based on SONiC application extension infrastructure. For example: dynamic policy based hashing Feature on hold for further calcification	No	Low
(Test) Upgrade to Python3 compliance	Not required	MSFT	Confirm with Test subgroup	Deferred	Pytest to use python3 as python2 is at end of life.	No
(Test) Ansible 2.10 upgrade	Not required	MSFT	Confirm with Test subgroup	Deferred	Pick up new features in ansible 2.10.	No
Link Training	Deferred	MSFT	Nvidia - tbd BRCM- tbd DELL - tbd	Deferred	Enable and disable link training per port.	No [To be confirmed]
Sample Rate on mirror	Need ETA	Innovium	BRCM/ LinkedIn	Deferred	Ability to sample on a mirror. i.e, instead of mirroring all the packets, just send 1 out of n packets. This involves adding SONiC support  for Mirror session attribute SAI_MIRROR_SESSION_ATTR_SAMPLE_RATE.	No	Low
Sflow with remote collector	Need ETA	Innovium	BRCM/ Nvidia	Deferred	Currently, SONiC supports sending sFlow samples to local CPU. Add support to send the samples to a remote collector  using a mirror session of type (SAI_SAMPLEPACKET_TYPE_MIRROR_SESSION).	No	Low
V4/V6 L3 ACL optimization	March Need ETA	Innovium	BRCM/ LinkedIn	Deferred	Currently SONiC uses separate ACL tables for L3 and L3v6 RACLs. In some ASICs, if a user wants both v4 and v6 rules, they would end up using two hardware ACL tables instead of one. The proposal is to give the platform the ability to mention if they want to support L3 and L3V6 ACLs in the same hardware ACL Table. This approach has been taken in the community for Mirror ACL tables but not for L3 ACLs. We are extending this to L3 ACLs as well.	No
RPVST+	10/20/2019	BRCM	Deferred	Deferred	Best Effort - 202106 Rapid traffic re-convergence per vlan (< 500 ms) following the failure of a bridge or bridge port. Incl BPDU and Root Guard functions, and IS-CLI support (PVST+ also)	No	Conf: High Pri: Low
Kernel programming performance enhancement	4/28/20 -> rejected New ETA: TBD	BRCM	MSFT/ DELL/ Intel	Deferred	Replace system() calls with netlink calls (nlapi -> libnl3) (HLD needs some re-work and re-review)	No	High
Static Anycast Gateway	TBD	BRCM	Intel - tbd	Deferred	L3 MC-LAG feature to configure the gateway address on both peers	No	High
BFD (SW - 100ms interval from FRR)	Need Info	BRCM	Nvidia - tbd	Deferred	Bidirectional Forwarding Detection - routing OAM feature, linked to BGP neighbor detection. This was submitted before (HLD, code), but needs to change to reflect FRR 7.5 and bgpcfgd changes	No	BFD
Thresholds (statistics)	7/30/2019	BRCM	Deferred	Deferred	Best Effort - 202106 Configure a threshold on supported buffers in ingress and egress. A threshold breach notification (entry update in COUNTERS_DB) is generated accordingly.	No	Low
UI Content (UMF client)	TBD	BRCM	Nvidia - tbd	Deferred	Big catch-up of UI's using the Management Framework - incremental work (i.e. not all or nothing)	No	High
DPB Reconcile	TBD	BRCM	LinkedIn - tbd Need to confirm with DPB WG	Deferred	Broadcom has an internal parallel implementation of DPB. This is based upon the Community design and code, but has diverged. We need a catch-up reconcile.	No	Low
Dynamic CoPP reconcile	TBD	BRCM	MSFT/DELL	Deferred	Broadcom has an internal parallel implementation of Dynamic CoPP. This is based upon the Community design and code, but has diverged. We need a catch-up reconcile.	No	Low
Mgmt FW Phase 3	TBD	BRCM	MSFT/ BRCM/ DELL	Deferred	Next set of infra enhancements to the Management Framework, including (but not limited to): - - Standard interface-naming - gNMI subscriptions (ON_CHANGE etc) - OC-YANG versioning - Show running - Audit logging - Memory/performance enhancements - RBAC with AAA	No	High
Routed sub-interface reconcile	TBD	BRCM	Alibaba/ MSFT-tbd	Deferred	Broadcom has an internal parallel implementation of Routed sub-interfaces. This is based upon the Community design and code, but has diverged. We need a catch-up reconcile.	No	Low
MultiDB reconcile	TBD	BRCM	Alibaba/ MSFT-tbd	Deferred	Broadcom has an internal parallel implementation of Multi-DB. This is based upon the Community design and code, but has diverged. We need a catch-up reconcile.	No	Low
CPU Queues	2/16/2021 (30mins)	BRCM	Intel-tbd	Deferred	Ability for manage/view CPU egress queues on the CPU port - basis for other monitoring features/enhancements (Threshold/Snapshot)	No	Conf: High Pri: Low
ACL enhancements: Policing, DHCP/PCP remark, L2	TBD	BRCM	MSFT	Deferred	Best Effort - 202106 Use Flow-based Services framework to add ACL enhancements, including L2 ACLs, QoS re-marking and policing, and mirroring match enhancements. Included FBS Framework Comprises: - - ACL match extensions (e.g. L2 fields) - MQC equivalent config framework - DSCP, COS Remarking and Policing QoS actions - Flow-based forwarding (e.g. PBR) - ACL-based CoPP rules - Reconcile rules from different policies on the same interfaces (port, PO, VLAN) - Ingress vs. egress binding - Re-factored code to use Flow-based services - etc	?	Pri: Low
ARP Refresh	TBD	BRCM	MSFT Dell - tbd	Deferred	More performant alternative to the current ARP Refresh script, implemented in SWSS. Initial design discussed with MSFT - based upon this reworked to move some functions to nbrmgrd (from neighsyncd)	No	Pri: High
Gearbox part 2		BRCM	MSFT (confirm with MACSEC/gearbox WG)	Deferred	Best Effort - 202106 We found deficiencies in part 1 during the AS5835 bring-up - these need fixes in both SONiC and SAI. MSFT (Guohan) is aware of these, but we need to close on the details	Yes	Pri: High
libebpf support and usage	TBD	BRCM	MSFT - tbd/ Alibaba	Deferred	Best Effort - 202106 Scaling enhancement - filters/reduces netlink processing load by: - kernel extensions - user-space access library - Client application usage (e.g. teamd)	No	Pri: Low