release candidate 20.08-rc1

dpdk-dev Thomas Monjalon 2 participants 2 messages Jul 13, 2020 – Jul 15, 2020

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Thomas Monjalon

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2020-07-13 00:58 UTC #0 lore raw

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:

	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v20.08-rc1

There are 778 new patches in this snapshot.

Release notes:

	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.html

Highlights of 20.08-rc1, grouped by category:
* General
- external thread registration API
- bit operations API for drivers
- VFIO PF with VF token
* Networking
- eCPRI offload with flow API
- Tx scheduling offload
* Cryptography
- crypto-CRC chained operation for DOCSIS protocol
* RegEx
- new device class API for future RegEx drivers
* Tools
- testpmd 5-tuple swap for L2/L3/L4
- performance test application for flow rules
- l2fwd forwarding between asymmetric ports

We must complete this release cycle in the beginning of August. DPDK 20.08-rc2 is expected in one week on July 20.

Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.

We should publish the roadmap for DPDK 20.11 now.

Thank you everyone

Pei Zhang

2020-07-15 08:01 UTC #1 lore raw

Hello all,

Testing with dpdk 20.08-rc1 from Red Hat looks good.

We cover below 16 scenarios and and all get PASS on RHEL8 testing:

(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 5.0
dpdk: git://dpdk.org/dpdk master

git log -1
commit 466032ef8012a7fddd8dda986c5977e9341e3c35 (HEAD -> master, tag: v20.08-rc1, origin/releases, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Jul 13 02:50:06 2020 +0200

version: 20.08-rc1

Signed-off-by Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>

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

Best regards,

Pei

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