> -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 9:50 AM > To: annou...@dpdk.org > Subject: release candidate 22.11-rc1 > > 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 > Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk22.11-rc1 test execution rate is 60%. Two critical issues are found. 1, [22.11-rc1]iavf macfwd performance drop 40%, Intel dev is under investigating. 2, dpdk_vm_power_manger failed to start and coredumps: Fix patch: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20221012123637.51640-1-markus.th...@tu-ilmenau.de/. but not verify yet. # Basic Intel(R) NIC testing * Build or compile: *Build: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04.5, Ubuntu22.04.1, Fedora36, RHEL8.6 etc. - All test passed. *Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu22.04.1 and RHEL8.6. - All test passed. * PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. - Execution rate is 80%. - New bug: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1101 [dpdk-22.11.0rc1][meson test] driver-tests/eventdev_selftest_sw test failed Bad commit is a2833ecc5ea4adcbc3b77e7aeac2a6fd945da6a0 mempool: fix get objects from mempool with cache * PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc. - Execution rate is 80%. Find 5 new issues, Intel dev is under investigating. * Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, RFC2544 Zero packet loss performance test, etc. - Execution rate is 80%. Find one critical issue: [22.11-rc1]iavf macfwd performance drop 40%, Intel dev is under investigating. * Power and IPsec: * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc. - Under testing. One critical issue is found: dpdk_vm_power_manger failed to start and coredumps. * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc. - Execution rate is 40%. Find one issue, Intel dev is under investigating. # Basic cryptodev and virtio testing * Virtio: both function and performance test are covered. Such as PVP/Virtio_loopback/virtio-user loopback/virtio-net VM2VM perf testing/VMAWARE ESXI 7.0u3, etc. - Execution rate is 80%. No new issue is found. - Known issue's fix patch: http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20221011030803.16746-3-cheng1.ji...@intel.com/. * Cryptodev: *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc. - Under testing. Find one bug about FIPS tests are failing, Intel dev is under investigating. *Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc. - Under testing.
Best regards, Yu Jiang
