release candidate 22.03-rc4

release candidate 22.03-rc4

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v22.03-rc4

There are 31 new patches in this snapshot.

Release notes:
	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.html

This is the last release candidate.
Only documentation should be updated before the release.

You may share some release validation results
by replying to this message at dev@dpdk.org
and by adding tested hardware in the release notes.

Please think about sharing your roadmap now for DPDK 22.07.

Thank you everyone

RE: release candidate 22.03-rc4

[Jiang, YuX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 9:21 AM
> To: announce@dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 22.03-rc4
>
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
>       https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v22.03-rc4
>
> There are 31 new patches in this snapshot.
>
> Release notes:
>       https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.html
>
> This is the last release candidate.
> Only documentation should be updated before the release.
>
> You may share some release validation results by replying to this message at
> dev@dpdk.org and by adding tested hardware in the release notes.
>
> Please think about sharing your roadmap now for DPDK 22.07.
>
> Thank you everyone
>

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk22.03-rc4 test is finished. No critical issue is found.
# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* Build or compile:
 *Build: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang/ICC version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Fedora35, RHEL8.4, RHEL8.5 etc.
  - All test passed.
  - One known issue https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=928, use "meson setup -Ddisable_drivers=event/cnxk" to build.
 *Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu20.04 and RHEL8.4.
  - All test done. One known issue https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939,
    > It has fix which has been merged into latest dpdk, but new error "raw/ifpga" build failed is found,
    > Intel dev has provided patch, and verify passed. http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220316072630.1916479-1-wei.huang@intel.com/

* PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
 - All test done. No new issue is found.

* VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
 - All test done. No new issue, known issue about "stats_checks/test_xstats_check_vf: pkt not recieve when rx_mode=novector", has fix but not merged.

* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
 - All test done. No new issue is found.

* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, RFC2544 Zero packet loss performance test, etc.
 - All test done. No big performance drop.

 * Power and IPsec:
 * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
  - All test passed.
 * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
  - All test done. One new issue is found, Intel dev is 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.
 - All test done. Two known bugs, have fix but not merged.

* Cryptodev:
 *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
  - All test done. Two known issues, Intel dev is investigating.
 *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
  - All test done.

RE: release candidate 22.03-rc4

[Wael Abualrub]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 3:21 AM
> To: announce@dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 22.03-rc4
> 
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F
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> 
> There are 31 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
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> 
> This is the last release candidate.
> Only documentation should be updated before the release.
> 
> You may share some release validation results by replying to this message at
> dev@dpdk.org and by adding tested hardware in the release notes.
> 
> Please think about sharing your roadmap now for DPDK 22.07.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 

The following is a list of tests that we ran on NVIDIA hardware this release:

- Basic functionality:
   Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
- testpmd xstats counter test.
- testpmd timestamp test.
- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
- RTE flow tests:
  Items:
  - conntrack
  - ecpri
  - eth
  - flex
  - geneve
  - geneve_opt
  - gre
  - gre_key
  - gre_option
  - gtp
  - gtp_psc
  - icmp
  - icmp6
  - integrity
  - ipv4
  - ipv6
  - ipv6_frag_ext
  - mark
  - meta
  - mpls
  - nvgre
  - phy_port
  - port_id
  - tag
  - tcp
  - udp
  - vlan
  - vxlan
  - vxlan_gpe

  Actions:
  - age
  - conntrack
  - count
  - dec_tcp_ack
  - dec_tcp_seq
  - dec_ttl
  - drop
  - flag
  - inc_tcp_ack
  - inc_tcp_seq
  - jump
  - mark
  - meter
  - modify_field
  - nvgre_decap
  - nvgre_encap
  - of_pop_vlan
  - of_push_vlan
  - of_set_vlan_pcp
  - of_set_vlan_vid
  - port_id
  - queue
  - raw_decap
  - raw_encap
  - represented_port
  - rss
  - sample
  - set_ipv4_dscp
  - set_ipv4_dst
  - set_ipv4_src
  - set_ipv6_dscp
  - set_ipv6_dst
  - set_ipv6_src
  - set_mac_dst
  - set_mac_src
  - set_meta
  - set_tag
  - set_tp_dst
  - set_tp_src
  - set_ttl
  - vxlan_decap
  - vxlan_encap
- Some RSS tests.
- VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion tests.
- Checksum and TSO tests.
- ptype tests.
- link_status_interrupt example application tests.
- l3fwd-power example application tests.
- Multi-process example applications tests.
- Hardware LRO tests.
- Regex application tests.
- Buffer Split tests.
- Tx scheduling tests.

- One known issue: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=938 [TAP] testpmd crashed after stopping ports

Thanks,
Wael Abualrub