Hi Thomas,

The testing with dpdk 21.11-rc2 from Broadcom looks good. The following is a list of tests executed with 21.11-rc2:

- Basic functionality:
  Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
- Stats check tests
- RSS tests
- VLAN Offload Tests
- RX/TX Checksum Offload Tests
- Dynamic queue test
- Transmit Segmentation Offload (TSO) Tests
- DPDK Hotplug API Tests
- MTU and Jumbo frame tests
- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
- Unicast/multicast MAC filtering tests
- VXLAN/Geneve Rx CSO, TSO, RSS tests
- Port Start Stop Tests

We don't see any critical issues blocking the release.

Regards,
Kalesh

On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 6:15 AM Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
        https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v21.11-rc2

There are 448 new patches in this snapshot.

Release notes:
        https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.html

Highlights of 21.11-rc2:
        - Toeplitz hash using Galois Fields New Instructions (GFNI)
        - virtio RSS
        - vhost power monitor wakeup
        - Xilinx vDPA driver
        - DMA drivers for HiSilicon and Marvell CNXK
        - GPU device class library
        - AddressSanitizer (ASan) integration for debug
        - more API internals hidden (ip_frag, vDPA)

Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
Some bugs found with ASan are tagged and can be found with this query:
        https://bugs.dpdk.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=[asan]

DPDK 21.11-rc3 is expected in one week or less.

Thank you everyone




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Regards,
Kalesh A P