RE: release candidate 23.03-rc2

[Wael Abualrub <waela@nvidia.com>]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2023 5:27 PM
> To: announce@dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 23.03-rc2
> 
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v23.03-rc2
> 
> There are 319 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_23_03.html
> 
> Few major additions arrived in this -rc2:
> 	- machine learning inference device API
> 	- platform bus
> 	- open link speed to 400G
> There were a lot of updates in drivers, including new ones:
> 	- Intel cpfl IPU driver
> 	- Marvell CNXK machine learning inference The driver features should
> be frozen now.
> 
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> Do not forget to review examples, tests and documentation updates.
> 
> DPDK 23.03-rc3 is expected in one week.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 

Note: all tests are passed, and no critical issues were found.

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

- Basic functionality:
   Send and receive multiple types of traffic. - passed
- testpmd xstats counter test. - passed
- testpmd timestamp test. - passed
- Changing/checking link status through testpmd. - passed

- RTE flow tests:

  Matching on:
  - ecpri:  - sync is passed
  - esp: sync and async are passed
  - eth: sync and async are passed
  - flex: sync is passed
  - geneve: sync is passed
  - geneve_opt: sync is passed
  - gre : sync and async are passed
  - gre_key: sync and async are passed
  - gre_option: sync is passed
  - gtp: sync and async are passed
  - gtp_psc: sync and async are passed
  - icmp: sync is passed
  - icmp6: sync is passed
  - integrity: sync and async are passed
  - ipv4: sync and async are passed
  - ipv6: sync and async are passed
  - ipv6_frag_ext: sync is passed
  - mark: sync and async are passed
  - meta: sync and async are passed
  - meter color: async is passed
  - mpls: sync and async are passed
  - nvgre: sync and async are passed
  - port_id: sync is passed
  - represented port: async is passed
  - tag: sync and async are passed
  - tcp: sync and async are passed
  - udp: sync and async are passed
  - vlan: sync and async are passed
  - vxlan: sync and async are passed
  - vxlan_gpe: sync and async are passed
  - phy_port: sync is passed

  Actions:
  - age: sync is passed
  - count: sync and async are passed
  - dec_tcp_ack: sync is passed
  - dec_tcp_seq: sync is passed
  - dec_ttl: sync is passed
  - drop: sync and async is passed
  - flag: sync is passed
  - inc_tcp_ack: sync is passed
  - inc_tcp_seq: sync is passed
  - jump: sync and async are passed
  - mark: sync and async are passed
  - meter: sync is passed
  - meter_mark: async is passed
  - modify_field: sync and async are passed
  - nvgre_decap: sync is passed
  - nvgre_encap: sync is passed
  - of_pop_vlan: sync and async are passed
  - of_push_vlan: sync and async are passed
  - of_set_vlan_pcp: sync and async are passed
  - of_set_vlan_vid: sync and async are passed
  - port_id: sync and async are passed
  - queue: sync and async are passed
  - raw_decap: sync and async are passed
  - raw_encap: sync and async are passed
  - represented_port: async are passed
  - rss: sync and async are passed
  - sample: sync is passed
  - set_ipv4_dscp: sync is passed
  - set_ipv4_dst: sync is passed
  - set_ipv4_src: sync is passed
  - set_ipv6_dscp: sync is passed
  - set_ipv6_dst: sync is passed
  - set_ipv6_src: sync is passed
  - set_mac_dst: sync is passed
  - set_mac_src: sync is passed
  - set_meta: sync is passed
  - set_tag: sync is passed
  - set_tp_dst: sync is passed
  - set_tp_src: sync is passed
  - set_ttl: sync is passed
  - vxlan_decap: sync and async are passed
  - vxlan_encap: sync and async are passed

- RSS testing. -passed
- VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion tests. -passed
- Checksum and TSO tests. -passed
- ptype reporting -passed
- link status interrupt using the example application link_status_interrupt tests. - passed
- Interrupt mode using l3fwd-power example application tests. - passed
- Multi process testing using multi process example applications. - passed
- Hardware LRO tests. - passed
- Regex tests. - passed
- Buffer Split. - passed
- Tx scheduling. - passed


Kindest Regards,
Wael Abualrub