[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 21.02-rc4

[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 21.02-rc4

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v21.02-rc4

There are only 20 new patches in this snapshot,
meaning this release cycle is almost closed.

Release notes:
	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.html

Please test and report any issue on bugs.dpdk.org.
You may share some release validation results
by replying to this message at dev@dpdk.org.

DPDK 21.02 should be released at the end of this week.

Please think about sharing your roadmap now for DPDK 21.05.

Thank you everyone

Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 21.02-rc4

[Thinh Tran]

DPDK 21.02 on IBM Power result

* DPDK: v21.02-rc3-16-ge3f15be4d  and  v21.02-rc4
* Build with gcc 9.3.0-1: no issue found
* Basic PF on Mellanox: No new issues or regressions were seen.
* Performance: not tested.

System tested:
  - IBM Power9 Model 8335-101 CPU: 2.3 (pvr 004e 1203)
Tested NICs:
  - Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
  - MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-1.0.4.1
  - Firmware level: 16.29.1016

Regards,
Thinh Tran

On 2/11/2021 3:22 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v21.02-rc4
> 
> There are only 20 new patches in this snapshot,
> meaning this release cycle is almost closed.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.html
> 
> Please test and report any issue on bugs.dpdk.org.
> You may share some release validation results
> by replying to this message at dev@dpdk.org.
> 
> DPDK 21.02 should be released at the end of this week.
> 
> Please think about sharing your roadmap now for DPDK 21.05.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
> 

Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 21.02-rc4

[Ali Alnubani]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: announce <announce-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Thomas
> Monjalon
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2021 1:22 AM
> To: announce@dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-announce] release candidate 21.02-rc4
> 
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v21.02-rc4
> 
> There are only 20 new patches in this snapshot,
> meaning this release cycle is almost closed.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.html
> 
> Please test and report any issue on bugs.dpdk.org.
> You may share some release validation results
> by replying to this message at dev@dpdk.org.
> 
> DPDK 21.02 should be released at the end of this week.
> 
> Please think about sharing your roadmap now for DPDK 21.05.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 

The following is a list of tests that we ran on this release:

- Basic functionality:
  Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
- testpmd xstats counter test.
- testpmd timestamp test.
- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
- RTE flow tests:
  Items:
  - eth
  - geneve
  - gre
  - gre_key
  - gtp
  - gtp_psc
  - icmp
  - icmp6
  - ipv4
  - ipv6
  - ipv6_ext
  - ipv6_frag_ext
  - meta
  - mpls
  - nvgre
  - tcp
  - udp
  - vlan
  - vxlan
  - vxlan-gpe
  Actions:
  - age (shared and non-shared)
  - count
  - dec_tcp_ack
  - dec_tcp_seq
  - dec_ttl
  - drop
  - flag
  - inc_tcp_ack
  - inc_tcp_seq
  - jump
  - mark
  - meter
  - of_pop_vlan
  - of_push_vlan
  - of_set_vlan_pcp
  - of_set_vlan_vid
  - port_id
  - queue
  - raw_decap
  - raw_encap
  - rss (shared and non-shared)
  - sample
  - set_ipv4_dscp
  - set_ipv4_dst
  - set_ipv4_src
  - set_ipv6_dscp
  - set_ipv6_dst
  - set_ipv6_src
  - set_mac_dst
  - set_mac_src
  - set_meta
  - set_tag
  - set_tp_dst
  - set_tp_src
  - set_ttl
  - vxlan_decap
  - vxlan_encap
- Some RSS tests.
- VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion tests.
- Checksum and TSO tests.
- ptype tests.
- link_status_interrupt example application tests.
- l3fwd-power example application tests.
- Multi-process example applications tests.
- Hardware LRO tests.
- Regex application tests.
- Buffer Split tests.
- Tx scheduling tests.

We don't see critical issues blocking the release.

Thanks,
Ali