RE: release candidate 23.03-rc3

["Xu, HailinX" <hailinx.xu@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 12:30 AM
> To: announce@dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 23.03-rc3
> 
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v23.03-rc3
> 
> There are 110 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_23_03.html
> 
> Few major additions arrived in this -rc3:
> 	- test application for machine learning inference
> 	- DTS hello world
> The test framework DTS is being improved and migrated into the mainline.
> Please join the DTS effort for contributing, reviewing or testing.
> 
> As usual, you can report any issue on https://bugs.dpdk.org
> 
> DPDK 23.03-rc4 could be out at the end of this week.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk23.03-rc3 test execution rate is 85%, no new 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 Ubuntu20.04.5, Ubuntu22.04.1, Fedora37, RHEL8.6/9.1 etc.
  - All test passed.
 *Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu22.04.1 and RHEL8.6.
  - All test passed.
* Meson test & Asan test:
  known issues:
        - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=956 [dpdk-22.03][asan] dpdk-pdump: detected memory leaks when quit dpdk-pdump
                - Not fix yet.
        - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1024 [dpdk-22.07][meson test] driver-tests/link_bonding_mode4_autotest bond handshake failed
                - Not fix yet.
        - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1107 [22.11-rc1][meson test] seqlock_autotest test failed.
                - Special issue with gcc 4.8.5.
* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
        - All test done. No new issue is found.
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
        - All test done. No new issue is found.
* 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 new issue is found.
* Power and IPsec:
 * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
        - Execution rate is 60%. No new issue is found.
 * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
        - On going.
# 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 8.0, etc.
        - All test done. No new issue is found.
* Cryptodev:
 *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
        - On going.
 *Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
        - On going.

Regards,
Xu, Hailin