release candidate 24.07-rc3

release candidate 24.07-rc3

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v24.07-rc3

There are 100 new patches in this snapshot.

Release notes:
	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_24_07.html

As usual, you can report any issue on https://bugs.dpdk.org

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

There is only one week remaining before the end of the month.
DPDK 24.07-rc4 should be the last release candidate.

Thank you everyone

Re: release candidate 24.07-rc3

[Thinh Tran]

IBM - Power Systems Testing  DPDK v24.07-rc3-0-g82c47f005b


* Build CI on Fedora 37,39,40 container images for ppc64le
* Basic PF on Mellanox: No issue found
* Performance: not tested.
* OS:- RHEL 9.4  kernel: 5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.ppc64le
         with gcc version  11.4.1 20231218 (Red Hat 11.4.1-3)
      - RHEL 9.2  kernel: 5.14.0-284.52.1.el9_2.ppc64le
         with gcc version 11.3.1 20221121 (Red Hat 11.3.1-4) (GCC)

      - SLES 15-SP5 ppc64le kernel: 5.14.21-150500.55.44-default
        with gcc version 12.3.0 (SUSE Linux)

Systems tested:
  - LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A
     NICs:
     - Mellanox Mellanox Technologies MT2894 Family [ConnectX-6 Lx]
     - firmware version: 26.41.1000
     - MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.04-0.6.6.5


Regards,
Thinh

On 7/23/2024 6:03 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v24.07-rc3
> 
> There are 100 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_24_07.html
> 
> As usual, you can report any issue on https://bugs.dpdk.org
> 
> Only documentation and critical bug fixes should be accepted at this stage.
> 
> There is only one week remaining before the end of the month.
> DPDK 24.07-rc4 should be the last release candidate.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
> 

RE: release candidate 24.07-rc3

[Xu, HailinX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2024 7:03 AM
> To: announce@dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 24.07-rc3
> 
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v24.07-rc3
> 
> There are 100 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_24_07.html
> 
> As usual, you can report any issue on https://bugs.dpdk.org
> 
> Only documentation and critical bug fixes should be accepted at this stage.
> 
> There is only one week remaining before the end of the month.
> DPDK 24.07-rc4 should be the last release candidate.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk24.07-rc3 all test is done. found two new issues.

New issues:
1. Bug 1502 - [dpdk-24.07] l3fwdacl/l3fwdacl_acl_rule: core dump when receiving packets  -> not fix yet
2. ieee1588/ieee1588_enable: obtained incorrect timestamp  -> Intel dev is under investigating

# 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 Ubuntu22.04.4, Ubuntu24.04, Fedora40, RHEL9.3/9.4, FreeBSD14.0, SUSE15.5, OpenAnolis8.8, CBL-Mariner2.0 etc.
  - All test passed.
 *Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu24..04 and RHEL9.4.
  - All test passed with latest dpdk.
* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. 
	- All test case is 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.
	- Execution rate is done. found the 1&2 issue.
* 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 done. No new issue is found.
* Power and IPsec: 
 * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc. 
	- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
 * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
	- Execution rate is 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 8.0U1, etc.
	- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
* Cryptodev: 
 *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
	- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found. 
 *Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
	- Execution rate is done. No performance drop.

Regards,
Xu, Hailin