Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 21.08-rc3

["Jiang, YuX" <yux.jiang@intel.com>]

Hi Thomas and all,
Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk21.08-rc3 test is finished. No critical issue is found.
One bug about https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768 is found, Nvidia's Dev. is working on it.
# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* Build or compile:
        *Build: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang/ICC version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Fedora34, etc.
                - All tests are done. All passed.
        *Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu20.04 and Fedora34.
                - All tests are done. All passed.
        *PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
                - All tests are done. One new issue(Bugzilla id 768) is found.
        *VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
                - All tests are done. One new issue(Bugzilla id 768) is found.
        *PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Share code update/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
                - All tests are done. No new issue is found except known issues. Intel Dev. are working on them.
        *Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, RFC2544 Zero packet loss performance test, etc.
                - All tests are done. All passed. No big performance drop.
        *Power and IPsec:
                * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
                        - All tests are done. All passed.
                * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
                        - All tests are done. All passed.
# 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 7.0u2, etc.
                - All tests are done. No new issue is found except known issues.
                        1),Split ring pvp can't receive imix pkts when using vswitch app
                        2),virtio memory access out of bounds in virtio_check_scatter_on_all_rx_queues
                        3),vswitch_sample_cbdma: forward 8k packet failed when relaunch dpdk-vhost, refer to https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771  & https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772
                        4),vhost virtio loopback test failed when enqueue with cbdma
        *Cryptodev:
                *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
                        - All tests are done. No new issue is found except known issue.
                *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
                        - All tests are done. No big performance drop.
Best regards,
Yu Jiang

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon
> Sent: Sunday, August 1, 2021 5:19 AM
> To: announce@dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 21.08-rc3
>
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
>       https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v21.08-rc3
>
> There are 70 new patches in this snapshot.
>
> Release notes:
>       https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_08.html
>
> Please check all pending announces of deprecations for 21.11.
> https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?q=announce
>
> You may share some release validation results by replying to this message at
> dev@dpdk.org.
>
> DPDK 21.08-rc4 is expected on Wednesday.
>
> Thank you everyone
>