RE: release candidate 22.07-rc1

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2022 4:51 AM
> To: announce@dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 22.07-rc1
>
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
>       https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v22.07-rc1
>
> There are 576 new patches in this snapshot, constituting what the reviewers
> and maintainers were able to handle.
>
> Release notes:
>       https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_22_07.html
>
> Highlights of 22.07-rc1:
>       - initial RISC-V support
>       - sequence lock
>       - protocol-based metering
>       - Rx threshold event
>       - SFP telemetry
>       - async vhost improvements
>       - vhost library statistics
>       - vmxnet3 versions 5 & 6
>       - ECDH crypto
>       - DMA device telemetry
>       - SWX pipeline improvements
>       - integration as Meson subproject
>
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
>
> DPDK 22.07-rc2 is expected in two weeks.
>
> Thank you everyone
>

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk22.07-rc1 test execution rate is 80%. No critical issue is found.

# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* Build or compile:
 *Build: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Ubuntu22.04, Fedora36, RHEL8.6 etc.
  - All test done. Find 1 new bug.
        - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1016 [dpdk-22.07*] drivers/net/ice meson build failed with gcc12.1.1 on Fedora36/64
                Intel Dev is under investigating. No fix yet.
 *Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu22.04 and RHEL8.6.
  - All test done. Find 3 new bugs.
        - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1032 [dpdk 22.07-rc1] app/test/test_cryptodev meson build failed with cflag param optimization=1 on Ubuntu22.04 &&RHEL8.6 with gcc11.2.0&&8.5.0
                Has fix, and verify passed
        - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1033 [dpdk 22.07-rc1] app/test-flow-perf meson build failed with cflag param optimization=1 on Ubuntu22.04 &&RHEL8.6 with gcc11.2.0&&8.5.0
                Has fix, and verify passed
        - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1029 [dpdk 22.07-rc1] drivers/net/cxgbe meson build failed with cflag param optimization=1 on Ubuntu22.04 &&RHEL8.6 with gcc11.2.0&&8.5.0
                Has fix, and verify passed

* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
        - Execution rate is 80%. Find 1 new issue: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1028#c0, no fix yet.

* 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%. Find 4 new issues, Intel dev is 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.
  - All test passed.
 * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
        - Execution rate is 60%. Find 2 new issues, one has fix and verify passed. Other is https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034, no fix yet.

# 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.
        - Execution rate is 80%. Find 3 new bugs, Intel dev is under investigating.

* Cryptodev:
 *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
        - Execution rate is 80%. No new issue is found
 *Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
        - Execution rate is 80%.  No new issue is found.

Best regards,
Yu Jiang