Re: release candidate 22.11-rc1

[David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>]

Hello,

On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 3:50 AM Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
>
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
>         https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v22.11-rc1
>
> There are 737 new patches in this snapshot,
> including many API/ABI compatibility breakages.
> This release won't be ABI-compatible with previous ones.
>
> Release notes:
>         https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_22_11.html
>
> Highlights of 22.11-rc1:
>         - LoongArch build
>         - Intel uncore frequency control
>         - multiple mbuf pools per Rx queue
>         - Rx buffer split based on protocol
>         - hardware congestion management
>         - hairpin memory configuration
>         - Rx/Tx descriptor dump
>         - flow API extensions
>         - MACsec processing offload
>         - ShangMi crypto algorithms
>         - baseband FFT operations
>         - eventdev Tx queue start/stop
>         - eventdev crypto vectorization
>         - NitroSketch membership
>
> Some work is in progress to optimize the mempool cache.
> Some patches are part of -rc1, and more could be merged in -rc2.
> Please measure the performance of this release candidate,
> and check these mempool patches:
>         https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=25063
>
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
>
> DPDK 22.11-rc2 is expected in two weeks.
>
> Thank you everyone
>
>

Red Hat QE ran its non regression test suites and found no issue.



See below for details:
Test scenario:

Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size): PASS
Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size) : PASS
Guest with device assignment(VF) throughput testing: PASS
PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing: PASS
PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing: PASS
PVP vhost-user 1Q - cross numa node throughput testing: PASS
Guest with vhost-user 2 queues throughput testing: PASS
vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: qemu reconnect: PASS
vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: ovs reconnect: PASS
PVP 1Q live migration testing: PASS
PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing: PASS
Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing: PASS
Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M): PASS
Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing: PASS
Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing: PASS
Host PF + DPDK testing: PASS
Host VF + DPDK testing: PASS

Test version:

kernel 5.14
qemu 7.1
dpdk: git://dpdk.org/dpdk
# git log -1

commit a74b1b25136a592c275afbfa6b70771469750aee

Author: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>

Date:   Tue Oct 11 02:39:28 2022 +0200

version: 22.11-rc1

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>

NICs: X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)


-- 
David Marchand