RE: release candidate 24.03-rc1

["Xu, HailinX" <hailinx.xu@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2024 3:36 PM
> To: announce@dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 24.03-rc1
> 
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v24.03-rc1
> 
> There are 521 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_24_03.html
> 
> Highlights of 24.03-rc1:
> 	- argument parsing library
> 	- dynamic logging standardized
> 	- HiSilicon UACCE bus
> 	- Tx queue query
> 	- flow matching with random and field comparison
> 	- flow action NAT64
> 	- more cleanups to prepare MSVC build
> 
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> 
> DPDK 24.03-rc2 will be out as soon as possible.
> Priority is on features announced in the roadmap:
> 	https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk24.03-rc1 all test is done. found three new issues.

New issues:
1. Bug 1386 - [dpdk-24.03] [ABI][meson test] driver-tests/link_bonding_autotest test failed: Segmentation fault when do ABI testing  -> not fix yet
2. Bug 1387 - [dpdk24.03] cbdma: Failed to launch dpdk-dma app  -> has fix patch
3. dcf_lifecycle/test_one_testpmd_dcf_reset_port: Failed to manually reset vf when use dcf  -> 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 Ubuntu23.10, Ubuntu22.04.3, Fedora39, RHEL8.9/9.2, Centos7.9, FreeBSD14.0, SUSE15, OpenAnolis8.8, CBL-Mariner2.0 etc.
  - All test passed.
 *Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu22.04.3 and RHEL9.2.
  - 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 third 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. found the second issue.
* 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