> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-boun...@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 5:41 AM
> To: annou...@dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 21.11-rc1
>
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v21.11-rc1
>
> There are 1171 new patches in this snapshot, big as expected.
>
> Release notes:
> https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.html
>
> Highlights of 21.11-rc1:
> * General
> - more than 512 MSI-X interrupts
> - hugetlbfs subdirectories
> - mempool flag for non-IO usages
> - device class for DMA accelerators
> - DMA drivers for Intel DSA and IOAT
> * Networking
> - MTU handling rework
> - get all MAC addresses of a port
> - RSS based on L3/L4 checksum fields
> - flow match on L2TPv2 and PPP
> - flow flex parser for custom header
> - control delivery of HW Rx metadata
> - transfer flows API rework
> - shared Rx queue
> - Windows support of Intel e1000, ixgbe and iavf
> - testpmd multi-process
> - pcapng library and dumpcap tool
> * API/ABI
> - API namespace improvements (mempool, mbuf, ethdev)
> - API internals hidden (intr, ethdev, security, cryptodev, eventdev,
> cmdline)
> - flags check for future ABI compatibility (memzone, mbuf, mempool)
>
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> DPDK 21.11-rc2 is expected in two weeks or less.
>
> Thank you everyone
>
Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk21.11-rc1 test execution
rate is 50%. No critical issue is found.
But one little high issue https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=843 impacts
cryptodev function and performance test.
Bad commit id is 8cb5d08db940a6b26f5c5ac03b49bac25e9a7022/Author: Harman Kalra
<hka...@marvell.com>. Please help to handle it.
# 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, Fedora34, RHEL8.4, etc.
- All test done.
*Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as
Ubuntu20.04 and Fedora34.
- All test done.
- Find one bug: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=841
Marvell Dev has provided patch and Intel validation team verify passed.
Patch link:
http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20211027131259.11775-1-ktejas...@marvell.com/
* PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including
RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- Execution rate is 60%. 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 60%.
- One bug https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=845 about
"vm_hotplug: vf testpmd core dumped after executing "device_del dev1" in qemu"
is found.
Bad commit id is commit
c2bd9367e18f5b00c1a3c5eb281a512ef52c5dfd Author: Harman Kalra
<hka...@marvell.com>
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package
Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Share code
update/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
- Execution rate is 60%.
- One bug about kni_autotest failed on Suse15.3. Trying to find
bad commit id. Known 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 60%.
- One bug about nic single core performance drop 2% is found.
Bad commit id is commit: efc6f9104c80d39ec168/Author: Olivier Matz
<olivier.m...@6wind.com>
* Power and IPsec:
* Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty
Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
- All passed.
* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library
basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- Not Start.
# 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%.
- Two new bugs are found.
- One about VMware ESXI 7.0U3: failed to start port.
Intel Dev is under investigating.
- One https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=840 about
"dpdk-pdump capture the pcap file content are wrong" is found.
Bad commit id: commit
10f726efe26c55805cf0bf6ca1b80e97b98eb724 //bad commit id Author: Stephen
Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
* Cryptodev:
*Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API
testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
- Execution rate is 60%
- Two new bugs are found.
- One https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=843
about crypto performance tests for QAT are failing. Bad commit id is
8cb5d08db940a6b26f5c5ac03b49bac25e9a7022/Author: Harman Kalra
<hka...@marvell.com>
- One https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=842
about FIP tests are failing. Bad commit id is commit
f6849cdcc6ada2a8bc9b82e691eaab1aecf4952f Author: Akhil Goyal gak...@marvell.com
*Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput
Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
- Execution rate is 10%. Most of performance test are
blocked by Bug843.
