RE: release candidate 22.03-rc3

[Wael Abualrub <waela@nvidia.com>]

Hi,

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> From: NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas@monjalon.net>
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> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
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> There are 102 new patches in this snapshot.
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> Release notes:
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> This should be the last release candidate.
> Only documentation and critical bug fixes are accepted until the release.
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> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> You may share some release validation results by replying to this message at
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> Please think about sharing your roadmap now for DPDK 22.07.
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> Thank you everyone
> 

The following is a list of tests that we ran on NVIDIA hardware 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:
  - conntrack
  - ecpri
  - eth
  - flex
  - geneve
  - geneve_opt
  - gre
  - gre_key
  - gre_option
  - gtp
  - gtp_psc
  - icmp
  - icmp6
  - integrity
  - ipv4
  - ipv6
  - ipv6_frag_ext
  - mark
  - meta
  - mpls
  - nvgre
  - phy_port
  - port_id
  - tag
  - tcp
  - udp
  - vlan
  - vxlan
  - vxlan_gpe

  Actions:
  - age
  - conntrack
  - count
  - dec_tcp_ack
  - dec_tcp_seq
  - dec_ttl
  - drop
  - flag
  - inc_tcp_ack
  - inc_tcp_seq
  - jump
  - mark
  - meter
  - modify_field
  - nvgre_decap
  - nvgre_encap
  - of_pop_vlan
  - of_push_vlan
  - of_set_vlan_pcp
  - of_set_vlan_vid
  - port_id
  - queue
  - raw_decap
  - raw_encap
  - represented_port
  - rss
  - 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.

- One known issue: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=938 [TAP] testpmd crashed after stopping ports

PS: We are internally investigating a few test failures, and we'll send fixes if necessary.

Thanks,
Wael Abualrub