Hi
IBM - Power Systems
DPDK v21.11-rc1-63-gbb0bd346d5
* Basic PF on Mellanox: No new issues or regressions were seen.
* Performance: not tested.
Systems tested:
- IBM Power9 PowerNV 9006-22P
OS: RHEL 8.4
GCC: version 8.3.1 20191121 (Red Hat 8.3.1-5)
NICs:
- Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
- firmware version: 16.29.1017
- MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-1.0.4.1 (OFED-5.2-1.0.4)
Regards,
Thinh Tran
On 10/25/2021 4:40 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v21.11-rc1
There are 1171 new patches in this snapshot, big as expected.
Release notes:
https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.html
Highlights of 21.11-rc1:
* General
- more than 512 MSI-X interrupts
- hugetlbfs subdirectories
- mempool flag for non-IO usages
- device class for DMA accelerators
- DMA drivers for Intel DSA and IOAT
* Networking
- MTU handling rework
- get all MAC addresses of a port
- RSS based on L3/L4 checksum fields
- flow match on L2TPv2 and PPP
- flow flex parser for custom header
- control delivery of HW Rx metadata
- transfer flows API rework
- shared Rx queue
- Windows support of Intel e1000, ixgbe and iavf
- testpmd multi-process
- pcapng library and dumpcap tool
* API/ABI
- API namespace improvements (mempool, mbuf, ethdev)
- API internals hidden (intr, ethdev, security, cryptodev, eventdev,
cmdline)
- flags check for future ABI compatibility (memzone, mbuf, mempool)
Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
DPDK 21.11-rc2 is expected in two weeks or less.
Thank you everyone
