release candidate 24.11-rc2

release candidate 24.11-rc2

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v24.11-rc2

There are 444 new patches in this snapshot,
including some library features and new drivers.
It is becoming a big release.

Release notes:
	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_24_11.html

Highlights of 24.11-rc2:
	- lcore variables allocation
	- AMD uncore power management
	- per-CPU power management QoS for resume latency
	- logging rework (timestamp, color, syslog, journal)
	- RSS hash key generation
	- ZTE zxdh net driver initialization
	- Napatech ntnic flow engine

Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.

We are very late in the schedule.
DPDK 24.11-rc3 must appear on the next Tuesday 19,
in order to allow an -rc4 before closing the release
on Friday, November 29.

Thank you everyone

RE: release candidate 24.11-rc2

[Xu, HailinX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2024 11:24 PM
> To: announce@dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 24.11-rc2
> 
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v24.11-rc2
> 
> There are 444 new patches in this snapshot, including some library features
> and new drivers.
> It is becoming a big release.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_24_11.html
> 
> Highlights of 24.11-rc2:
> 	- lcore variables allocation
> 	- AMD uncore power management
> 	- per-CPU power management QoS for resume latency
> 	- logging rework (timestamp, color, syslog, journal)
> 	- RSS hash key generation
> 	- ZTE zxdh net driver initialization
> 	- Napatech ntnic flow engine
> 
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> 
> We are very late in the schedule.
> DPDK 24.11-rc3 must appear on the next Tuesday 19, in order to allow an -rc4
> before closing the release on Friday, November 29.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk24.11-rc2 all test is done. found six new issues.

New issues:
1. [dpdk-24.11] ice_enable_basic_hqos_on_pf: failed to load level topology from ddp    -> Intel dev is under investigating
2. [dpdk-24.11]Linkville pmd_bonded_8023ad/command_line_option: set lacp failed    -> Intel dev is under investigating
3. https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579 - [dpdk-24.11-rc2] meson_tests/fasts malloc_autotest test failed on i40e    -> not fix yet
4. [dpdk-24.11] [CNV] meson_tests/perf: hash_readwrite_lf_perf_autotest test timeout    -> Intel dev is under investigating
5. https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576 - [dpdk24.11-rc2] DPDK build failed with EXTRA_CFLAGS='-O1' on Redhat9.4    -> not fix yet
6. [dpdk24.11][CNV200G] start and quit testpmd cause link to stay down    -> 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 Ubuntu24.10, Ubuntu24.04.1, Fedora40, RHEL8.10 RHEL9.4, FreeBSD14.1, SUSE15.6, OpenAnolis8.9, AzureLinux 3.0 etc.
  - Execution rate is done. found the 5 issue.
 *Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu24.04.1 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. found the 2&3 issue.
* 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&4&6 issue.
* CPF/APF(MEV): test scenarios including APF-HOST,CPF-HOST,CPF-ACC,cpfl_rte_flow/MTU/Jumboframe/checksum offload, etc.
	- Execution rate is 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.
	- 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