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)	Description
Telemetry for Multi-ASIC		MSFT	Intel			TBD		Single telemetry sever to aggregate data from multiple Redis DB
Dynamic policy based hashing	04/13/2021	Nvidia/MSFT	MSFT/Aviz	5/15/21		Yes	High	Hash packets on custom fields. PR Add YANG model&Policy Based Hashing HLD
DHCP relay IPv6 support	03/30/2021	Nvidia	BRCM	5/10/21		No	High	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
App extension CLI generation tool	4/16/21	Nvidia	BRCM/ MSFT	ETA: 5/30/21		No	High	2nd phase of the application extension: a CLI generation tool for application extension programs. An improvements following the current infra available
App extension with warmboot awareness	Included in #682	Nvidia	BRCM/ MSFT	4/30/21			High	2nd phase of the application extension: warmboot awareness and integration of an application extension that requires warmboot support
Add FRR running configuration to tech support	N/A(email update)	Nvidia	BRCM	ETA: 5/30/21	5067 -Open	No	High	Improve the FRR information in the tech support following the github issue 5067
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		SAI API is already part of 1.7	High	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
TPID config support SONiC TPID Configuration Support by gechiang · Pull Request #681	Oct-20	MSFT	Nvidia- tbd/ BRCM	Need Info		Yes	High	Allow us to covert our PTF fanout switches to run SONiC OS
Deprecating Python2 platform daemons	No HLD	MSFT [Vendors will have to support]	Nvidia-tbd	Need Info		N/A		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
MACSec support in Chassis	03/30/2021	MSFT	BRCM/ Juniper	26 - Open
MACSEC enhancement: primary & fallback case	3/30/2021	MSFT	BRCM/ Juniper		403, 193, 5700, 18, 22, 434, 1475, 1474, 713, 714, 715,716, 717, 719, 704, 684, 722 & 755 - Merged	No		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.
Error handling (swss)	3/19/2021	MSFT	Nvidia/ BRCM	5/15/2021		No		Handle SAI failures in orchagent. [Ques: feature was discussed before, will we have new HLD or existing HLD?]
SONiC YANG model	4/30/2021	MSFT	MSFT/ YANG WG	Need new ETA		No		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.
New branch creation for Debian11	(No HLD)	MSFT	MSFT			No		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]
(Test) Testbed v2	Reviewed	MSFT	Confirm with Test subgroup	TBD		No		Improve testbed and deployment management
Testcase/Testbed Infrastructure	TBD	MSFT	Confirm with Test subgroup			No		New test cases and infrastructure improvement [Define scope ]
SONiC fanout support	TBD	MSFT		TBD		No		Change fanout switch o.s to SONiC.
Inband mgmt VRF	2/24/2021	DELL	MSFT				High	HLD pending for review (#638)
SRv6 support	04/12/2021 (Com: 5/11/2021)	Intel/ Alibaba	Juniper- tbd/ Cisco- tbd	5/25/2021		Yes	High	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
SONiC for MPLS Dataplane	3/2/2021	Juniper	Intel/ Metaswitch- tbd/ Confirm with MPLS WG	Need Info		Yes, SAI discussion on going	High	SONiC support for MPLS dataplane.
Better route scalability with multiple next-hops	1/26/2021	Metaswitch	BRCM	Need Info		No		Split next hop groups out of routing table (back-compatibly).
Enabling IS-IS in the dataplane	Need Info	Metaswitch	Confirm with MPLS WG	Need Info		Yes (new enum value)		Getting IS-IS PDUs to the control plane. To be discussed in sonic-mpls-workgroup
Class-based forwarding	Need Info	Metaswitch	Confirm with MPLS WG	Need Info		Yes		Policy-based tunnel selection.To be discussed in sonic-mpls-workgroup(Might move to 202112 release)
IPv6 Link Local and BGP Unnumbered	6/2/2020	BRCM	MSFT/ DELL	4/10/21	5584,1463&1159 - Open	No	High	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.
MC-LAG (L2)	5/5/2020	BRCM	Intel/ MSFT/ Innovium/ DELL	4/10/2021	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 – FinalReviewAnd ApprovalPending.	No	High	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
Storm Control (BUM)	4/6/2021	BRCM	MSFT/ Innovium	4/10/21	1306 & 928 - Open 346 - Merged	No	Pri: Low	Independently rate limit ingress Broadcast, Multicast and Unknown Unicast traffic on a bits-per-second basis. IS-CLI configuration
RADIUS AAA	10/29/2019	BRCM	Dell	4/10/21	4220 - Closed 1521 - Merged	No	Pri: High	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
STP/PVST	6/4/2019	BRCM	TBD	4/10/21	885, 529 - Open	No	Conf: High Pri: Low	Spanning tree; Pre-requisite for RPVST+,
L2 functional and performance enhancements	5/21/2019	BRCM	MSFT- tbd DELL - tbd (related to MC-LAG)	4/10/21	885, 529 - Open 114 - Merged	No	High	FDB flush, MAC move, FDB aging time configuration, Static FDB configuration and VLAN Range configuration
PDK - Platform Development Environment	7/9/2019	BRCM	MSFT	4/10/21	PR3778 -Open 28 - Merged 107 - Closed	No	High	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
Broadcom silicon common config	TBD	BRCM	DELL - tbd	4/10/21	PR 693-Open 5818 - Closed	No	High	Per-switching silicon Common config for Broadcom Supported Platforms - this is totally Broadcom specific
PCIe Monitoring HLD PR-Merged HLD PR-Merged	11/17/2020	MSFT/ Dell			5000-Merged 60-Merged 1169- In Review 100- In Review 144- In Review		Conf: High	Deferred from 202012
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			High	Klish CLI for show-tech support using the new mgmt.-infra framework
App extension with Orchagent/SWSS		Nvidia	BRCM/ MSFT	Deferred		No	Low	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
(Test) Upgrade to Python3 compliance	Not required	MSFT	Confirm with Test subgroup	Deferred		No		Pytest to use python3 as python2 is at end of life.
(Test) Ansible 2.10 upgrade	Not required	MSFT	Confirm with Test subgroup	Deferred		No		Pick up new features in ansible 2.10.
Link Training	Deferred	MSFT	Nvidia - tbd BRCM- tbd DELL - tbd	Deferred		No [To be confirmed]		Enable and disable link training per port.
Sample Rate on mirror	Need ETA	Innovium	BRCM/ LinkedIn	Deferred		No	Low	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.
Sflow with remote collector	Need ETA	Innovium	BRCM/ Nvidia	Deferred		No	Low	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).
V4/V6 L3 ACL optimization	March Need ETA	Innovium	BRCM/ LinkedIn	Deferred		No		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.
RPVST+	10/20/2019	BRCM	Deferred	Deferred		No	Conf: High Pri: Low	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)
Kernel programming performance enhancement	4/28/20 -> rejected New ETA: TBD	BRCM	MSFT/ DELL/ Intel	Deferred		No	High	Replace system() calls with netlink calls (nlapi -> libnl3) (HLD needs some re-work and re-review)
Static Anycast Gateway	TBD	BRCM	Intel - tbd	Deferred		No	High	L3 MC-LAG feature to configure the gateway address on both peers
BFD (SW - 100ms interval from FRR)	Need Info	BRCM	Nvidia - tbd	Deferred		No	BFD	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
Thresholds (statistics)	7/30/2019	BRCM	Deferred	Deferred		No	Low	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.
UI Content (UMF client)	TBD	BRCM	Nvidia - tbd	Deferred		No	High	Big catch-up of UI's using the Management Framework - incremental work (i.e. not all or nothing)
DPB Reconcile	TBD	BRCM	LinkedIn - tbd Need to confirm with DPB WG	Deferred		No	Low	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.
Dynamic CoPP reconcile	TBD	BRCM	MSFT/DELL	Deferred		No	Low	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.
Mgmt FW Phase 3	TBD	BRCM	MSFT/ BRCM/ DELL	Deferred		No	High	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
Routed sub-interface reconcile	TBD	BRCM	Alibaba/ MSFT-tbd	Deferred		No	Low	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.
MultiDB reconcile	TBD	BRCM	Alibaba/ MSFT-tbd	Deferred		No	Low	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.
CPU Queues	2/16/2021 (30mins)	BRCM	Intel-tbd	Deferred		No	Conf: High Pri: Low	Ability for manage/view CPU egress queues on the CPU port - basis for other monitoring features/enhancements (Threshold/Snapshot)
ACL enhancements: Policing, DHCP/PCP remark, L2	TBD	BRCM	MSFT	Deferred		?	Pri: Low	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
ARP Refresh	TBD	BRCM	MSFT Dell - tbd	Deferred		No	Pri: High	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)
Gearbox part 2		BRCM	MSFT (confirm with MACSEC/gearbox WG)	Deferred		Yes	Pri: High	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
libebpf support and usage	TBD	BRCM	MSFT - tbd/ Alibaba	Deferred		No	Pri: Low	Best Effort - 202106 Scaling enhancement - filters/reduces netlink processing load by: - kernel extensions - user-space access library - Client application usage (e.g. teamd)