A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v22.11-rc1
There are 737 new patches in this snapshot,
including many API/ABI compatibility breakages.
This release won't be ABI-compatible with previous ones.
Release notes:
https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_22_11.html
Highlights of 22.11-rc1:
- LoongArch build
- Intel uncore frequency control
- multiple mbuf pools per Rx queue
- Rx buffer split based on protocol
- hardware congestion management
- hairpin memory configuration
- Rx/Tx descriptor dump
- flow API extensions
- MACsec processing offload
- ShangMi crypto algorithms
- baseband FFT operations
- eventdev Tx queue start/stop
- eventdev crypto vectorization
- NitroSketch membership
Some work is in progress to optimize the mempool cache.
Some patches are part of -rc1, and more could be merged in -rc2.
Please measure the performance of this release candidate,
and check these mempool patches:
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=25063
Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
DPDK 22.11-rc2 is expected in two weeks.
Thank you everyone
