DPDK 22.11 released

DPDK 22.11 released

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new major release is available:
	https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-22.11.tar.xz

It was a comfortable release cycle:
	1387 commits from 193 authors
	1902 files changed, 137224 insertions(+), 61256 deletions(-)

The branch 22.11 should be supported for at least two years, maybe more,
making it recommended for system integration and deployment.

The new major ABI version is 23.
The next releases 23.03 and 23.07 will be ABI-compatible with 22.11.

Below are some new features:
	- LoongArch build
	- Intel uncore frequency control
	- mempool optimizations
	- new mbuf layout for IOVA-as-VA build
	- multiple mbuf pools per Rx queue
	- Rx buffer split based on protocol
	- hardware congestion management
	- hairpin memory configuration
	- proactive NIC error handling
	- Rx/Tx descriptor dump
	- flow API extensions
	- GVE (Google Virtual Ethernet)
	- IDPF (Intel Infrastructure DataPath Function)
	- UADK supporting HiSilicon crypto
	- MACsec processing offload
	- ShangMi crypto algorithms
	- baseband FFT operations
	- eventdev Tx queue start/stop
	- eventdev crypto vectorization
	- NitroSketch membership
	- DTS introduction in DPDK repository

More details in the release notes:
	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_22_11.html


There are 74 new contributors (including authors, reviewers and testers).
Welcome to Abdullah Sevincer, Abhishek Maheshwari, Alan Liu,
Aleksandr Miloshenko, Alex Vesker, Alexander Chernavin, Allen Hubbe,
Amit Prakash Shukla, Anatolii Gerasymenko, Arkadiusz Kubalewski,
Arshdeep Kaur, Benjamin Le Berre, Bhagyada Modali, David MacDougal,
Dawid Zielinski, Dexia Li, Dukai Yuan, Erez Shitrit, Fei Qin, Frank Du,
Gal Shalom, Grzegorz Siwik, Hamdan Igbaria, Hamza Khan, Henning Schild,
Huang Wei, Huzaifa Rahman, James Hershaw, Jeremy Spewock, Jin Ling,
Joey Xing, Jun Qiu, Kaiwen Deng, Karen Sornek, Ke Xu, Kevin O'Sullivan,
Lei Cai, Lei Ji, Leszek Zygo, Long Wu, Lukasz Czapnik, Lukasz Kupczak,
Mah Yock Gen, Mandal Purna Chandra, Mao YingMing, Marcin Szycik,
Michael Savisko, Min Zhou, Mingjin Ye, Mingshan Zhang, Mário Kuka,
Piotr Gardocki, Qingmin Liu, R Mohamed Shah, Roman Storozhenko,
Sathesh Edara, Sergey Temerkhanov, Shiqi Liu, Stephen Coleman,
Steven Zou, Sunil Uttarwar, Sunyang Wu, Sylvia Grundwürmer,
Tadhg Kearney, Taekyung Kim, Taripin Samuel, Tomasz Jonak,
Tomasz Zawadzki, Tsotne Chakhvadze, Usman Tanveer, Wiktor Pilarczyk,
Yaqi Tang, Yi Li and Zhangfei Gao.

Below is the number of commits per employer (with authors count):
	456     Intel (65)
	227     Marvell (29)
	179     NVIDIA (28)
	 83     Corigine (6)
	 81     Red Hat (5)
	 60     Huawei (6)
	 58     AMD (5)
	 55     Microsoft (4)
	 53     OKTET Labs (2)
	 19     NXP (5)
	 14     Ericsson (1)
	 13     6WIND (2)
	        ...

A big thank to all courageous people who took on the non rewarding task
of reviewing other's job.
Based on Reviewed-by and Acked-by tags, the top non-PMD reviewers are:
	 53     Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>
	 45     Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>
	 36     Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
	 34     Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@corigine.com>
	 34     Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
	 33     David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
	 31     Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>
	 25     Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
	 21     Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
	 20     Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen@huawei.com>


The next version will be 23.03 in March.
The new features for 23.03 can be submitted during the next 4 weeks:
	http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap#dates
Please share your roadmap.

Thanks everyone