release candidate 24.11-rc3

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:

	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v24.11-rc3

There are 192 new patches in this snapshot. Hopefully almost everything expected should be in.

Release notes:

	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_24_11.html

Highlights of 24.11-rc3:
- Realtek r8169 net driver
- ZTE gdtc raw driver

As usual, you can report any issue on https://bugs.dpdk.org

Only documentation and critical bug fixes should be accepted at this stage.

There are only 10 days remaining before the end of the month. DPDK 24.11-rc4 should be the last release candidate (in one week).

Thank you everyone

Dear Thomas,

As you expected, I have attached the throughput under this release. My testing was conducted using pktgen 24.10.3. I just set the size and then start all. The test results are as follows:

size/throughput        rtl8125b        rtl8126
64                    1709 MBit/s      3080 MBit/s
128                   2272 MBit/s      4265 MBit/s
256                   2500 MBit/s      4982 MBit/s
512                   2500 MBit/s      5000 MBit/s
1024                  2500 MBit/s      5000 MBit/s                  
1280                  2500 MBit/s      5000 MBit/s
1518                  2500 MBit/s      5000 MBit/s

Best regards,
Howard Wang

21/11/2024 10:32, Howard Wang:

Interesting, thank you.

Do you plan to support more devices?

Dear Thomas,

Sure, r8169pmd will support more network cards, such as the 1G NICs (rtl8168 series).

Best Wishes,
Howard Wang

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21/11/2024 10:32, Howard Wang:

Interesting, thank you.

Do you plan to support more devices?

Hi,

The following is the testing report for 24.11-rc3.

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.
- testpmd xstats counter test.
- testpmd timestamp test.
- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.

- RTE flow tests:
https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#supported-hardware-offloads
- RSS testing.
- VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion tests.
- Checksum and TSO tests.
- ptype reporting.
- link status interrupt using the example application link_status_interrupt tests.
- Interrupt mode using l3fwd-power example application tests.
- Multi process testing using multi process example applications.
- Hardware LRO tests.
- Regex tests.
- Buffer Split.
- Tx scheduling.

Kindest Regards,
Wael Abualrub

IBM - Power Systems
DPDK v24.11-rc3-1-gf4ccce58c1

* Build CI on Fedora 38,39,40 and 41 container images for ppc64le
* Basic PF on Mellanox: No issue found
* Performance: not tested.
* OS: RHEL 9.4 kernel: 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.ppc64le

        with gcc version 11.4.1 20231218 (Red Hat 11.4.1-3) (GCC)
      SLES15 SP5  kernel: 5.14.21-150500.55.49-default
        with gcc version 13.2.1 20230912 (SUSE Linux)

Systems tested:
- LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A
NICs:
- Mellanox Mellanox Technologies MT2894 Family [ConnectX-6 Lx]
- firmware version: 26.42.1000
- MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.07-0.6.1.5

Regards,
Thinh Tran

Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk24.11-rc3 all test is done. found one new issue.

New issue:
1. [dpdk-24.11] Linkville mseon_tests/test_perf: pmd_perf_autotest Unsupported loopback mode -> Fixed

# 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 Ubuntu24.10, Ubuntu24.04.1, Fedora40, RHEL8.10 RHEL9.4, FreeBSD14.1, SUSE15.6, OpenAnolis8.9, AzureLinux 3.0 etc.
- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
*Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu24.04.1 and RHEL9.4.
- All test passed with latest dpdk.
* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- All test case is done. found the 1 issue.
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
* CPF/APF(MEV): test scenarios including APF-HOST,CPF-HOST,CPF-ACC,cpfl_rte_flow/MTU/Jumboframe/checksum offload, etc.
- Execution rate is 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.
- Execution rate is 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 done. No new issue is found.
* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
# 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 8.0U1, etc.
- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
* Cryptodev:
*Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
*Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
- Execution rate is done. No performance drop.

Regards,
Xu, Hailin