release candidate 23.07-rc3

release candidate 23.07-rc3

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v23.07-rc3

There are 139 new patches in this snapshot.

Release notes:
	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.html

Only documentation and bug fixes should be accepted at this stage.

As usual, you can report any issue on https://bugs.dpdk.org
Do not forget to review documentation updates and deprecation notices.

DPDK 23.07-rc4 should be the last release candidate.
The final release should be done end of next week.

Thank you everyone

RE: release candidate 23.07-rc3

[Wael Abualrub]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2023 8:39 PM
> To: announce@dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 23.07-rc3
>
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
>       https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v23.07-rc3
>
> There are 139 new patches in this snapshot.
>
> Release notes:
>       https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.html
>
> Only documentation and bug fixes should be accepted at this stage.
>
> As usual, you can report any issue on https://bugs.dpdk.org/ Do not forget to
> review documentation updates and deprecation notices.
>
> DPDK 23.07-rc4 should be the last release candidate.
> The final release should be done end of next week.
>
> Thank you everyone
>

The following is the testing report for 23.07-rc3.

Note: all tests are passed, and no critical issues were found.

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:
 See: https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#supported-hardware-offloads

- RSS testing.
- VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion tests.
- Checksum and TSO tests.
- ptype reporting.
- link status interrupt using the example application link_status_interrupt tests.
- Interrupt mode using l3fwd-power example application tests.
- Multi process testing using multi process example applications.
- Hardware LRO tests.
- Regex tests.
- Buffer Split.
- Tx scheduling.

Kindest Regards,
Wael Abualrub

RE: release candidate 23.07-rc3

[Xu, HailinX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2023 1:39 AM
> To: announce@dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 23.07-rc3
> 
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v23.07-rc3
> 
> There are 139 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.html
> 
> Only documentation and bug fixes should be accepted at this stage.
> 
> As usual, you can report any issue on https://bugs.dpdk.org Do not forget to
> review documentation updates and deprecation notices.
> 
> DPDK 23.07-rc4 should be the last release candidate.
> The final release should be done end of next week.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk23.07-rc3 all tests done. no critical issue found.
# 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, Ubuntu22.04.2, Fedora38, RHEL8.7/9.2, Centos7.9, OpenAnolis8.8, CBL-Mariner2.0 etc.
  - All test passed.
 *Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu22.04.2 and RHEL9.0.
  - All test passed with latest dpdk.
* Meson test & Asan test: 
    known issue:
        - [dpdk23.07][asan] multiprocess_iavf/multiprocess_simple_mpbasicoperation: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free -> Intel dev is under investigating
	- https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1107 [22.11-rc1][meson test] seqlock_autotest test failed
	- https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1123 [dpdk-22.11][asan] the stack-buffer-overflow was found when quit testpmd in Redhat9
	- https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1250 [dpdk-23.07][meson test] driver-tests/cryptodev_openssl_asym_autotest blocked in RHEL9.0 -> has fix patch
* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. 
  - All test done. No new issue is found.
* 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 new issue is found.
* Power and IPsec: 
 * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc. 
  - All test done. No new issue is found. 
 * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
  - All test done. No new issue is found. 
# 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 8.0, etc.
  - All test done. No new issue is found:
* Cryptodev: 
 *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
  - All test done. Find 1 new bug:
        - [dpdk-23.07-rc3] FIPS openssl_hmac test is failing -> Intel dev is under investigating
 *Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
  - All test done. No new issue is found.

Regards,
Xu, Hailin

Re: release candidate 23.07-rc3

[Thinh Tran]

IBM - Power Systems
DPDK v23.07-rc3-8-g238f67ca9c

* Build CI on Fedora 30,31,34,36,37 for ppc64le
* Basic PF on Mellanox: No issue found
* Performance: not tested.
* OS: RHEL 9.1  kernel: 5.14.0-162.6.1.el9_1.ppc64le
         with gcc version 11.3.1 20220421 (Red Hat 11.3.1-2) (GCC)
       RHEL 8.8  kernel: 4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8.ppc64le
         with gcc version 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-18) (GCC)
       RHEL 8.4  kernel: 4.18.0-305.72.1.el8_4.ppc64le
         with gcc version 8.4.1 20200928 (Red Hat 8.4.1-1) (GCC)

Systems tested:
  - LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A
     NICs:
     - Mellanox Mellanox Technologies MT2894 Family [ConnectX-6 Lx]
     - firmware version: 26.37.1014
     - MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.04-0.5.3.6

  - LPARs on Power9 IBM,9009-42G
      NICs:
      - Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
      - firmware-version: 16.35.2000
      - MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.04-0.5.3.6

Regards,
Thinh Tran

On 7/12/2023 12:38 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v23.07-rc3
> 
> There are 139 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.html
> 
> Only documentation and bug fixes should be accepted at this stage.
> 
> As usual, you can report any issue on https://bugs.dpdk.org
> Do not forget to review documentation updates and deprecation notices.
> 
> DPDK 23.07-rc4 should be the last release candidate.
> The final release should be done end of next week.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
>