release candidate 20.11-rc5

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:

	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v20.11-rc5

There are 90 new patches in this snapshot.

Release notes:

	http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.html

Please update the section "Tested Platforms".

It should be the last release candidate for DPDK 20.11. After -rc5 there should be only doc updates. Please review pending patches related to the documentation:
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?q=doc

Please share some validation results
by replying to this message (at [email protected]).
If no critical issue, DPDK 20.11.0 will be closed in few days.

If you are preparing the next release cycle, please send your v1 patches before December 20, and share your roadmap to get high priority. Planning is especially important to avoid maintainers being flooded.

Thank you everyone

Hi Thomas,

The testing with dpdk 20.11-rc5 from Red Hat looks good. We tested below 16 scenarios and and all got PASS on RHEL8:

(1)Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size): PASS (2)Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size) : PASS (3)Guest with device assignment(VF) throughput testing: PASS (4)PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing: PASS (5)PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing: PASS
(6)PVP vhost-user 1Q - cross numa node throughput testing: PASS (7)Guest with vhost-user 2 queues throughput testing: PASS (8)vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: qemu reconnect: PASS (9)PVP 1Q live migration testing: PASS
(10)PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing: PASS
(11)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing: PASS (12)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M): PASS (13)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing: PASS
(14) Allocate memory from the NUMA node which Virtio device locates: PASS (15)Host PF + DPDK testing: PASS
(16)Host VF + DPDK testing: PASS

Versions:

kernel 4.18
qemu 5.1

dpdk: git://dpdk.org/dpdk

# git log -1
commit 61bd270c4adc7dff1f9c8af1f2c72618860d4395 (HEAD -> main, tag: v20.11-rc5, origin/releases, origin/main, origin/HEAD)
Author: Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>
Date:   Sun Nov 22 22:53:47 2020 +0100

version: 20.11-rc5

# git branch
* main

NICs: X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)

Best regards,

Pei

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Monjalon" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2020 6:07:25 AM
Subject: [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.11-rc5

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:

	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v20.11-rc5

There are 90 new patches in this snapshot.

Release notes:

	http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.html

Please update the section "Tested Platforms".

It should be the last release candidate for DPDK 20.11. After -rc5 there should be only doc updates. Please review pending patches related to the documentation:
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?q=doc

Please share some validation results
by replying to this message (at [email protected]).
If no critical issue, DPDK 20.11.0 will be closed in few days.

If you are preparing the next release cycle, please send your v1 patches before December 20, and share your roadmap to get high priority. Planning is especially important to avoid maintainers being flooded.

Thank you everyone

Thomas and all,
20.11-RC5 is finished from Intel part. Except known issues, no new critical issue blocked the release is found.

* Intel(R) Testing
# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* PF(i40e):Passed. One minor issue related to devbind tool is found. Patch is provided. Should be merged into 21.02.
* PF(ixgbe):Passed
* PF(ice):Passed
* VF(i40e):Passed
* VF(ixgbe):Passed
* VF(ice):Passed
* Build or compile: Passed
* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: Passed
* 20.11 new features: Passed. One minor issue related to DLB2.0. Working on it.

#Basic cryptodev and virtio testing
* vhost/virtio basic loopback, PVP and performance test: Passed.
* cryptodev Function: Passed.
* cryptodev Performance: Passed.

Regards,
Yu Ping

[Govindharajan, Hariprasad]
Hi Thomas,

The following functionalities were validated with OvS-DPDK 20.11 release. DPDK 20.11
OvS dpdk-latest

ICE Device

Basic performance tests (RFC2544 P2P, PVP_CONT, RFC2544 PVP_TPUT, RFC2544 PVVP_TPUT, PVPV) Jumbo frames
RSS
Partial Hardware offloading
Port statistics
Port hot plugging

i40e Device

Basic performance (RFC2544 P2P, PVP_CONT, RFC2544 PVP_TPUT, RFC2544 PVVP_TPUT, PVPV) Jumbo frames
RSS
Hardware offloading
Port statistics
Port hot plugging
Flow control

ixgbe Device

Basic performance tests (RFC2544 P2P, PVP_CONT, RFC2544 PVP_TPUT, RFC2544 PVVP_TPUT, PVPV) Jumbo frames
RSS
Port statistics
Port hot plugging
Flow control

vhostuserclient device

Jumbo frames
dpdkvhostuserclient re-connect
dpdkvhostuserclient NUMA node
Port statistics

Basic AVX512 features
AVX512 performance
AVX512 Unit tests

QoS metrics

Regards
G Hariprasad