Hello Xueming,

The testing with dpdk 20.11.4-rc1 from Red Hat looks good. We tested below
20 scenarios and all got PASS on RHEL8:

(1)Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size):
PASS
(2)Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size) :
PASS
(3)Guest with device assignment(VF) throughput testing: PASS
(4)PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing: PASS
(5)PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing: PASS
(6)PVP vhost-user 1Q - cross numa node throughput testing: PASS
(7)Guest with vhost-user 2Q throughput testing: PASS
(8)vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: qemu reconnect: PASS
(9)vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: ovs reconnect: PASS
(10)PVP 1Q live migration testing: PASS
(11)PVP 1Q post copy live migration testing: PASS
(12)PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing: PASS
(13)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing: PASS
(14)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q post copy live migration testing: PASS
(15)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M): PASS
(16)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing: PASS
(17)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q post copy live migration testing: PASS
(18)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing: PASS
(19)Host PF + DPDK testing: PASS
(20)Host VF + DPDK testing: PASS

Versions:
kernel 4.18
qemu 6.1

dpdk: git://dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
branch: remotes/origin/20.11
# git log -1
commit bab4318634e0d2276e8bae5ea18789cfda813c70 (HEAD, tag: v20.11.4-rc1,
origin/20.11)
Author: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 7 00:02:07 2021 +0800

    version: 20.11.4-rc1

    Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>


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

Best regards,

Pei



On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 12:16 AM Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.4.
>
> The planned date for the final release is 31th December.
>
> Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report
> any issues/results with reply-all to this mail. For the final release
> the fixes and reported validations will be added to the release notes.
>
> A release candidate tarball can be found at:
>
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v20.11.4-rc1
>
> These patches are located at branch 20.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>
> Thanks.
>
> Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
>
> ---
> Ajit Khaparde (5):
>       net/bnxt: update ring group after ring stop start
>       net/bnxt: fix Tx queue startup state
>       net/bnxt: fix memzone free for Tx and Rx rings
>       net/bnxt: fix tunnel port accounting
>       doc: update NIC feature matrix for bnxt
>
> Alexander Bechikov (1):
>       mbuf: fix dump of dynamic fields and flags
>
> Alexander Kozyrev (3):
>       net/mlx5: fix mbuf replenishment check for zipped CQE
>       net/mlx5: fix GRE flow item matching
>       net/mlx5: fix GENEVE and VXLAN-GPE flow item matching
>
> Alvin Zhang (4):
>       app/testpmd: update forward engine beginning
>       app/testpmd: fix txonly forwarding
>       net/i40e: fix Rx packet statistics
>       net/iavf: fix pointer of meta data
>
> Anatoly Burakov (3):
>       vfio: fix FreeBSD clear group stub
>       vfio: fix FreeBSD documentation
>       vfio: set errno on unsupported OS
>
> Andrew Rybchenko (4):
>       mempool: deprecate unused physical page defines
>       drivers/net: remove queue xstats auto-fill flag
>       ethdev: forbid closing started device
>       common/sfc_efx: fix debug compilation control
>
> Anoob Joseph (4):
>       examples/ipsec-secgw: fix parsing of flow queue
>       test/crypto: skip plain text compare for null cipher
>       test/crypto: fix missing return checks
>       common/cpt: fix KASUMI input length
>
> Arek Kusztal (2):
>       crypto/qat: fix status in RSA decryption
>       crypto/qat: fix uncleared cookies after operation
>
> Baruch Siach (1):
>       net/af_xdp: fix zero-copy Tx queue drain
>
> Ben Magistro (2):
>       doc: fix bonding driver name
>       net/i40e: fix i40evf device initialization
>
> Ben Pfaff (1):
>       doc: fix numbers power of 2 in LPM6 guide
>
> Bing Zhao (3):
>       net/mlx5: fix flow tables double release
>       net/mlx5: fix RETA update without stopping device
>       vdpa/mlx5: fix mkey creation check
>
> Bruce Richardson (5):
>       usertools: fix handling EOF for telemetry input pipe
>       eal/freebsd: lock memory device to prevent conflicts
>       test/mem: fix memory autotests on FreeBSD
>       eal/freebsd: ignore in-memory option
>       doc: fix Doxygen examples build on FreeBSD
>
> Chengchang Tang (4):
>       net/hns3: fix queue flow action validation
>       net/hns3: fix taskqueue pair reset command
>       net/bonding: fix dedicated queue mode in vector burst
>       net/bonding: fix RSS key length
>
> Chengfeng Ye (2):
>       net/axgbe: fix unreleased lock in I2C transfer
>       net/mlx5: fix mutex unlock in Tx packet pacing cleanup
>
> Chengwen Feng (3):
>       kni: check error code of allmulticast mode switch
>       net/hns3: fix interrupt vector freeing
>       net/hns3: optimize Tx performance by mbuf fast free
>
> Cian Ferriter (1):
>       ring: fix Doxygen comment of internal function
>
> Ciara Loftus (1):
>       net/af_xdp: disable secondary process support
>
> Ciara Power (4):
>       crypto/openssl: fix CCM processing 0 length source
>       examples/fips_validation: remove unused allocation
>       examples/fips_validation: fix resetting pointer
>       test/crypto: remove unnecessary stats retrieval
>
> Conor Walsh (12):
>       eal: fix memory leak when saving arguments
>       net/hinic/base: remove some unused variables
>       net/octeontx: remove unused packet length
>       bus/fslmc: remove unused device count
>       event/sw: remove unused inflight events count
>       net/bnxt: remove some unused variables
>       net/liquidio: remove unused counter
>       net/nfp: remove unused message length
>       net/qede/base: remove unused message size
>       net/vmxnet3: fix build with clang 13
>       test/distributor: remove unused counter
>       examples/performance-thread: remove unused hits count
>
> Danny Patel (1):
>       crypto/octeontx2: fix unaligned access to device memory
>
> Dapeng Yu (10):
>       net/ice/base: fix PF ID for DCF
>       net/bonding: fix memory leak on closing device
>       net/ice: fix double free ACL flow entry
>       net/ice: retry getting VF VSI map after failure
>       net/ice: fix deadlock on flow redirect
>       net/ice: fix function pointer in multi-process
>       net/iavf: fix shared data in multi-process
>       net/ice: save rule on switch filter creation
>       net/ice: fix flow redirect
>       net/iavf: fix multi-process shared data
>
> Dariusz Sosnowski (4):
>       net/mlx5: fix partial inline of fine grain packets
>       net/mlx5: fix MPLS tunnel outer layer overwrite
>       net/mlx5: fix multi-segment packet wraparound
>       doc: fix typo in coding style
>
> David Christensen (3):
>       eal/ppc: ignore GCC 10 stringop-overflow warnings
>       config/ppc: ignore GCC 11 psabi warnings
>       test/atomic: fix 128-bit atomic test with many cores
>
> David Marchand (16):
>       net/virtio: avoid unneeded link interrupt configuration
>       net/virtio-user: fix Rx interrupts with multi-queue
>       net/virtio: do not use PMD log type
>       bus/vmbus: fix leak on device scan
>       test/latency: fix loop boundary
>       test/service: fix race in attr check
>       eal/x86: fix some CPU extended features definitions
>       mbuf: enforce no option for dynamic fields and flags
>       usertools/pmdinfo: fix plugin auto scan
>       doc: fix default mempool option in guides
>       test/cmdline: fix memory leak
>       eal/linux: fix uevent message parsing
>       app/testpmd: remove double dependency on bitrate lib
>       net/mlx5: do not close stdin on error
>       test/red: fix typo in test description
>       examples/ntb: fix build dependency
>
> Dmitry Kozlyuk (11):
>       net/mlx5: fix eCPRI matching
>       build: propagate Windows system dependencies to pkg-config
>       net/mlx5: fix shared RSS destruction
>       eal: remove Windows-specific list of common files
>       eal/windows: do not install virt2phys header
>       net/mlx5: fix Rx queue resource cleanup
>       net/mlx5: close tools socket with last device
>       eal/windows: fix IOVA mode detection and handling
>       eal/freebsd: fix IOVA mode selection
>       config/x86: skip GNU binutils bug check for LLVM
>       net/mlx5: fix flow shared age action reference counting
>
> Eli Britstein (6):
>       app/testpmd: add tunnel types
>       net/mlx5: support more tunnel types
>       app/testpmd: fix packet burst spreading stats
>       net: avoid cast-align warning in VLAN insert function
>       mbuf: avoid cast-align warning in data offset macro
>       eal/x86: avoid cast-align warning in memcpy functions
>
> Eugenio Pérez (1):
>       vhost: clean IOTLB cache on vring stop
>
> Fan Zhang (1):
>       examples/fips_validation: fix device start
>
> Feifei Wang (2):
>       drivers/net: fix typo in vector Rx comment
>       drivers/net: fix vector Rx comments
>
> Ferruh Yigit (5):
>       net/softnic: fix useless address check
>       net/i40e: fix 32-bit build
>       ethdev: fix crash on owner delete
>       ethdev: fix typos
>       kni: restrict bifurcated device support
>
> Gagandeep Singh (4):
>       common/dpaax/caamflib: fix IV for short MAC-I in SNOW3G
>       common/dpaax: fix physical address conversion
>       cryptodev: fix multi-segment raw vector processing
>       drivers/crypto: fix IPsec TTL decrement option
>
> Gaoxiang Liu (3):
>       vhost: fix crash on port deletion
>       net/virtio: fix repeated freeing of virtqueue
>       vhost: log socket path on adding connection
>
> Georg Sauthoff (1):
>       net: fix aliasing in checksum computation
>
> Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan (1):
>       telemetry: fix JSON output buffer length
>
> Gregory Etelson (10):
>       common/mlx5: fix flex parser DevX creation routine
>       net/mlx5: fix tunnel offload validation
>       examples/multi_process: fix Rx packets distribution
>       net/mlx5: fix VXLAN-GPE next protocol translation
>       net/mlx5: add Ethernet header to GENEVE RSS expansion
>       net/mlx5: fix RSS expansion scheme for GRE header
>       net/mlx5: fix GENEVE protocol type translation
>       net/mlx5: fix GRE protocol type translation
>       app/testpmd: fix tunnel offload validation
>       app/testpmd: fix hexadecimal parser with odd length
>
> Haiyue Wang (1):
>       net/ice: fix memzone leak after device init failure
>
> Hanumanth Reddy Pothula (1):
>       net/octeontx2: fix MTU when PTP is enabled
>
> Harman Kalra (1):
>       net/octeontx: fix access to indirect buffers
>
> Harneet Singh (1):
>       examples/l3fwd-power: fix early shutdown
>
> Harry van Haaren (1):
>       app/eventdev: fix terminal colour after control-c exit
>
> Heinrich Kuhn (2):
>       net/nfp: fix minimum descriptor sizes
>       net/nfp: cancel delayed LSC work in port close logic
>
> Honnappa Nagarahalli (1):
>       eal: reset lcore task callback and argument
>
> Huisong Li (9):
>       net/hns3: fix input parameters of MAC functions
>       app/testpmd: retain all original dev conf when config DCB
>       ethdev: fix PCI device release in secondary process
>       net/hns3: fix secondary process reference count
>       net/hns3: fix multi-process action register and unregister
>       net/hns3: unregister MP action on close for secondary
>       net/hns3: simplify queue DMA address arithmetic
>       app/testpmd: remove unused header file
>       net/hns3: fix residual MAC after setting default MAC
>
> Hyong Youb Kim (2):
>       net/enic: fix filter mode detection
>       net/enic: avoid error message when no advanced filtering
>
> Ilyes Ben Hamouda (1):
>       malloc: fix allocation with unknown socket ID
>
> Ivan Ilchenko (7):
>       net/virtio: fix mbuf count on Rx queue setup
>       net/virtio: fix split queue vectorized Rx
>       net/virtio: fix device configure without jumbo Rx offload
>       net/virtio: fix Tx cleanup functions to have same signature
>       net/virtio: fix Tx completed mbuf leak on device stop
>       ethdev: fix xstats by ID API documentation
>       net/virtio: fix link update in speed feature
>
> Ivan Malov (2):
>       net/sfc: set FDIR bit for flow mark in EF100 Rx
>       net/virtio: fix Tx checksum for tunnel packets
>
> Jerin Jacob (2):
>       examples/performance-thread: fix build with clang 12.0.1
>       doc: fix memif driver acronyms
>
> Jiawei Wang (3):
>       net/mlx5: fix tag ID conflict with sample action
>       net/mlx5: fix metadata and meter split shared tag
>       net/mlx5: fix flow mark with sampling and metering
>
> Jiawen Wu (3):
>       net/txgbe: fix reading SFP module SFF-8472 data
>       net/txgbe: fix to get interrupt status
>       net/txgbe: fix packet statistics
>
> Jie Wang (3):
>       net/ice: fix queue config in DCF
>       net/i40e: fix forward outer IPv6 VXLAN
>       app/testpmd: fix DCB in VT configuration
>
> Jim Harris (3):
>       eal/linux: remove unused variable for socket memory
>       test/compress-perf: remove unused variable
>       power: fix build with clang 13
>
> Joyce Kong (3):
>       test/func_reentrancy: free memzones after test
>       ethdev: fix typo in Rx queue setup API comment
>       test/service: fix some comment
>
> Julien Meunier (2):
>       stack: fix reload head when pop fails
>       net/ixgbe: fix queue release
>
> Junxiao Shi (2):
>       net/memif: fix chained mbuf determination
>       net/memif: allow stopping and closing device
>
> Kai Ji (2):
>       test/crypto: fix max length for raw data path
>       test/crypto: fix data lengths
>
> Kalesh AP (6):
>       net/bnxt: fix mbuf VLAN in scalar Rx
>       net/bnxt: check FW capability for VLAN offloads
>       net/bnxt: fix ring group free
>       net/bnxt: fix double allocation of ring groups
>       net/bnxt: fix function driver register/unregister
>       net/bnxt: fix VLAN indication in Rx mbuf
>
> Kefu Chai (1):
>       doc: fix a typo in EAL guide
>
> Kevin Traynor (2):
>       bitrate: fix registration to match API description
>       bitrate: fix calculation to match API description
>
> Konstantin Ananyev (2):
>       test/bpf: fix undefined behavior with clang
>       test: fix ring PMD initialisation
>
> Kumara Parameshwaran (1):
>       net/failsafe: fix secondary process probe
>
> Lance Richardson (1):
>       net: fix checksum API documentation
>
> Leyi Rong (1):
>       net/ice: fix generic build on FreeBSD
>
> Li Feng (1):
>       vhost: add sanity check on inflight last index
>
> Lior Margalit (5):
>       net/mlx5: fix RSS expansion for inner tunnel VLAN
>       net/mlx5: fix RSS expansion for explicit graph node
>       net/mlx5: fix RSS expansion traversal over next nodes
>       net/mlx5: fix RSS expansion for L2/L3 VXLAN
>       net/mlx5: fix RSS expansion with EtherType
>
> Long Li (1):
>       bus/vmbus: fix ring buffer mapping in secondary process
>
> Maciej Szwed (1):
>       interrupt: fix request notifier interrupt processing
>
> Matan Azrad (3):
>       common/mlx5: create wrapped MR
>       vdpa/mlx5: workaround dirty bitmap MR creation
>       common/mlx5: fix build for zero-length headroom array
>
> Maxime Coquelin (3):
>       app/testpmd: fix RSS key length
>       app/testpmd: fix RSS type display
>       net/mlx5: fix RSS RETA update
>
> Michael Baum (9):
>       net/mlx5: fix memory leak on context allocation failure
>       common/mlx5: remove unreachable branch in UAR allocation
>       common/mlx5: fix UAR allocation diagnostics messages
>       net/mlx5: remove duplicated reference of Tx doorbell
>       common/mlx5: glue MR registration with IOVA
>       vdpa/mlx5: workaround guest MR registrations
>       net/mlx5: workaround MR creation for flow counter
>       common/mlx5: fix user mode register access attribute
>       net/mlx5: fix devargs validation for multi-class probing
>
> Michal Krawczyk (3):
>       net/ena: fix offload capabilities verification
>       net/ena: fix per-queue offload capabilities
>       net/ena: advertise scattered Rx capability
>
> Min Hu (Connor) (1):
>       net/hns3: fix mailbox communication with HW
>
> Mohamad Noor Alim Hussin (1):
>       raw/ifpga/base: fix linking with librt
>
> Mohsin Kazmi (1):
>       net: fix checksum offload for outer IPv4
>
> Naga Harish K S V (2):
>       eventdev/eth_rx: fix WRR buffer overrun
>       eventdev/eth_tx: fix queue delete logic
>
> Narcisa Vasile (1):
>       eal/windows: fix CPU cores counting
>
> Nicolas Chautru (1):
>       baseband/acc100: fix 4GUL outbound size
>
> Nithin Dabilpuram (2):
>       app/testpmd: fix check without outer checksum
>       app/testpmd: fix dump of Tx offload flags
>
> Olivier Matz (4):
>       kvargs: fix comments style
>       mbuf: fix reset on mbuf free
>       test/mbuf: fix access to freed memory
>       mem: fix dynamic hugepage mapping in container
>
> Pablo de Lara (1):
>       crypto/ipsec_mb: fix cipher key setting
>
> Pallavi Kadam (2):
>       bus/pci: fix unknown NUMA node value on Windows
>       bus/pci: fix unknown NUMA node value on Windows
>
> Przemyslaw Zegan (2):
>       app/crypto-perf: fix AAD template copy overrun
>       common/qat: fix queue pairs number
>
> Qi Zhang (4):
>       net/ice/base: fix typo in comment
>       net/ice: fix RXDID default value in DCF
>       net/ice: fix performance with writeback policy
>       net/ice/base: calculate logical PF ID
>
> Qiming Chen (17):
>       net/ixgbe: fix Rx multicast statistics after reset
>       net/pcap: fix resource leakage on port probe
>       net/ixgbe: fix hash handle leak
>       net/ixgbe: fix queue resource leak
>       net/ixgbe: fix MAC resource leak
>       net/ixgbe: fix mbuf leak
>       net/i40e: fix mbuf leak
>       net/i40e: fix device startup resource release
>       net/iavf: fix mbuf leak
>       net/i40e/base: fix resource leakage
>       net/iavf: fix Rx queue buffer size alignment
>       net/iavf: fix mbuf leak
>       net/iavf: fix high CPU usage on frequent command
>       net/iavf: fix Rx queue IRQ resource leak
>       common/iavf: fix ARQ resource leak
>       net/i40e: fix buffer size alignment
>       net/i40evf: extend the polling times of vf reset
>
> Radu Nicolau (1):
>       examples/ipsec-secgw: move global array from header
>
> Rashmi Shetty (1):
>       event/dlb2: fix delayed pop test in selftest
>
> Raslan Darawsheh (1):
>       app/flow-perf: fix parsing of invalid option
>
> Rebecca Troy (1):
>       test/compress: fix buffer overflow
>
> Robin Zhang (7):
>       net/i40e/base: fix PHY identifiers for 2.5G and 5G adapters
>       net/i40e/base: fix PF reset
>       net/i40e/base: fix update link data for X722
>       net/i40e/base: fix AOC media type
>       net/i40e/base: fix function name in comments
>       net/i40e/base: fix potentially uninitialized variables
>       net/i40e/base: fix using checksum before check
>
> Ruifeng Wang (3):
>       examples/service_cores: fix lcore count check
>       net/i40e: fix risk in descriptor read in NEON Rx
>       net/i40e: fix risk in descriptor read in scalar Rx
>
> Sean Morrissey (3):
>       remove repeated 'the' in the code
>       fix PMD wording
>       doc: capitalise PMD
>
> Shijith Thotton (2):
>       test/event_crypto: fix event crypto metadata write
>       test/event: fix timer adapter creation test
>
> Simei Su (1):
>       net/ice: fix max entry number for ACL normal priority
>
> Somnath Kotur (3):
>       net/bnxt: fix crash after port stop/start
>       net/bnxt: fix Rx next consumer index in mbuf alloc fail
>       net/bnxt: fix autoneg on PAM4 links
>
> Stephen Hemminger (4):
>       mbuf: fix typo in comment
>       bpf: allow self-xor operation
>       net/bnxt: fix firmware version query
>       fix spelling in comments and doxygen
>
> Sunil Kumar Kori (1):
>       app/testpmd: fix access to DSCP table entries
>
> Tal Shnaiderman (2):
>       net/mlx5: fix software parsing support query
>       net/mlx5: fix tunneling support query
>
> Tejasree Kondoj (1):
>       crypto/octeontx2: fix lookaside IPsec IPv6
>
> Thomas Monjalon (2):
>       devtools: fix letter case check in commit title
>       doc: remove repeated repeated words
>
> Timothy Redaelli (1):
>       doc: strip build artefacts for examples file list
>
> Tudor Cornea (3):
>       net/iavf: fix overflow in maximum packet length config
>       net/ixgbe: fix port initialization if MTU config fails
>       net/af_packet: fix ignoring full ring on Tx
>
> Vanshika Shukla (1):
>       examples/ptpclient: fix delay request message
>
> Viacheslav Galaktionov (2):
>       net/sfc: free MAE lock once switch domain is assigned
>       net/sfc: update comment about representor support
>
> Viacheslav Ovsiienko (3):
>       app/testpmd: fix hex string parser in flow commands
>       doc: describe timestamp limitations for mlx5
>       net/mlx5: fix Tx scheduling check
>
> Vladimir Medvedkin (4):
>       test/hash: fix buffer overflow with jhash
>       hash: fix Doxygen comment of Toeplitz file
>       lpm6: fix buffer overflow
>       rib: fix IPv6 depth mask
>
> William Tu (2):
>       eal/windows: export version function
>       doc: fix emulated device names in e1000 guide
>
> Xiaoyu Min (1):
>       net/mlx4: fix empty Ethernet spec with VLAN
>
> Xuan Ding (2):
>       net/virtio: fix indirect descriptor reconnection
>       net/virtio: fix avail descriptor ID
>
> Xueming Li (9):
>       sched: get 64-bit greatest common divisor
>       vdpa/mlx5: fix large VM memory region registration
>       vdpa/mlx5: workaround FW first completion in start
>       vdpa/mlx5: retry VAR allocation during vDPA restart
>       common/mlx5: fix physical port name recognition
>       eal: fix device iterator when no bus is selected
>       net/mlx5: fix Altivec Rx
>       net/mlx5: fix Rx queue memory allocation return value
>       raw/octeontx2_ep: remove unused variable
>
> Yogesh Jangra (1):
>       pipeline: fix instruction label check
>
> Yu Wenjun (1):
>       net/ice: fix deadlock on flow query
>
> Yunjian Wang (4):
>       net/e1000: fix memzone leak on queue re-configure
>       net/ice: fix memzone leak on queue re-configure
>       net/i40e: fix memzone leak on queue re-configure
>       net/ixgbe: fix memzone leak on queue re-configure
>
> Yury Kylulin (1):
>       net/i40e: support 25G AOC/ACC cables
>
> Zhihong Peng (1):
>       net/virtio: fix check scatter on all Rx queues
>
> Zhihong Wang (1):
>       app/testpmd: fix Tx retry in flowgen engine
>
>