Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.11-rc5

[Pei Zhang <pezhang@redhat.com>]

Hi Thomas,

The testing with dpdk 20.11-rc5 from Red Hat looks good. We tested below 16 scenarios and 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 2 queues throughput testing: PASS
(8)vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: qemu reconnect: PASS
(9)PVP 1Q live migration testing: PASS
(10)PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing: PASS
(11)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing: PASS
(12)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M): PASS
(13)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing: PASS
(14) Allocate memory from the NUMA node which Virtio device locates: PASS
(15)Host PF + DPDK testing: PASS
(16)Host VF + DPDK testing: PASS

Versions:

kernel 4.18
qemu 5.1

dpdk: git://dpdk.org/dpdk  
# git log -1
commit 61bd270c4adc7dff1f9c8af1f2c72618860d4395 (HEAD -> main, tag: v20.11-rc5, origin/releases, origin/main, origin/HEAD)
Author: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Date:   Sun Nov 22 22:53:47 2020 +0100

    version: 20.11-rc5
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
# git branch
* main

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

Best regards,

Pei



----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Monjalon" <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: announce@dpdk.org
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2020 6:07:25 AM
Subject: [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.11-rc5

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v20.11-rc5

There are 90 new patches in this snapshot.

Release notes:
	http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.html
Please update the section "Tested Platforms".

It should be the last release candidate for DPDK 20.11.
After -rc5 there should be only doc updates.
Please review pending patches related to the documentation:
	https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?q=doc

Please share some validation results
by replying to this message (at dev@dpdk.org).
If no critical issue, DPDK 20.11.0 will be closed in few days.

If you are preparing the next release cycle, please send your v1 patches
before December 20, and share your roadmap to get high priority.
Planning is especially important to avoid maintainers being flooded.

Thank you everyone