RE: release candidate 22.03-rc1

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jiang, YuX
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2022 1:31 PM
> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; dev (dev@dpdk.org)
> <dev@dpdk.org>
> Cc: Devlin, Michelle <michelle.devlin@intel.com>; Mcnamara, John
> <john.mcnamara@intel.com>; Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> Subject: RE: release candidate 22.03-rc1
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2022 8:58 AM
> > To: announce@dpdk.org
> > Subject: release candidate 22.03-rc1
> >
> > A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> >     https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v22.03-rc1
> >
> > There are 481 new patches in this snapshot.
> > This release cycle is quiet and should be small.
> >
> > Release notes:
> >     https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.html
> >
> > Highlights of 22.03-rc1:
> >     - fast restart by reusing hugepages
> >     - UDP/TCP checksum on multi-segments
> >     - IP reassembly offload
> >     - queue-based priority flow control
> >     - private ethdev driver info dump
> >     - private user data in asymmetric crypto session
> >
> > Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> >
> > DPDK 22.03-rc2 is expected in two weeks.
> >
> > Thank you everyone
> >
> # 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, Fedora35, RHEL8.4,
> RHEL8.5 etc.
>   - All test passed.
>   - Two known issue, one ishttps://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=928 still
> exist;
>   other is about dpdk-next-virtio/dpdk-next-net-brcm
> I40E/ICE_16BYTE_RX_DESC meson build failure with gcc10.3 on
> ubuntu20.04,due to miss patch:
>   http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220208154219.266278-1-
> yidingx.zhou@intel.com/, please backport this patch to the two next branch.
> *Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as
> Ubuntu20.04 and RHEL8.4.
>  - All test passed.
> * PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including
> RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
>  - Execution rate is 80%. No new issue is found yet.
> * VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-
> RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
>
>  - Execution rate is 80%.
>  - Known issue about "vf tso: the larger tcp pkt not segmented correct
> fragments" has v2 fix:
>  https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220215155023.1542072-1-
> radu.nicolau@intel.com/
> * PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package
> Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible
> Descriptor, etc.
>  - Execution rate is 80%. Four new bugs are found, Intel devs are under
> investigating.
> * 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 80%. No big performance drop.
> * Power and IPsec:
>  * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll
> Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
>   - Execution rate is 90%, no new issue is found.
>  * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test -
> QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
>   - All test 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 7.0u3, etc.
>  - All test done.
>  - Two new bugs are found, Intel devs are under investigating.
> * Cryptodev:
>  *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev
> ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
>   - Execution rate is 60%, no new issue is found.
>  *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance
> /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
>   - Execution rate is 60%. No big performance drop.

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk22.03-rc1 test is almost finished. No critical issue is found.
# 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, Fedora35, RHEL8.4, RHEL8.5 etc.
  - All test passed.
  - One known issue: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=928 still exist.
*Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu20.04 and RHEL8.4.
 - All test passed.
* PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
 - All test done. Three new bugs are found, Intel dev is under investigating.
* VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
 - All test done.
 - Known issue about "vf tso: the larger tcp pkt not segmented correct fragments" has v2 fix can fix it:
   https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220215155023.1542072-1-radu.nicolau@intel.com/
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
 - All test done. Four new bugs are found, Intel devs are under investigating.
* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, RFC2544 Zero packet loss performance test, etc.
 - All test done. No big performance drop.
* Power and IPsec:
  * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
   - All test passed.
  * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
   - All test 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 7.0u3, etc.
 - All test done. One known issue about vxlan has fix: http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20211224150925.3296471-1-kevinx.liu@intel.com/
* Cryptodev:
 *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
  - Most test done, One new issue is found.
 *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
  - Most test done. No new issue is found.

BRs,
Yu Jiang