release candidate 21.08-rc3

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:

	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v21.08-rc3

There are 70 new patches in this snapshot.

Release notes:

	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_08.html

Please check all pending announces of deprecations for 21.11.
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?q=announce

You may share some release validation results
by replying to this message at [email protected].

DPDK 21.08-rc4 is expected on Wednesday.

Thank you everyone

Hi Thomas,

The testing with dpdk 21.08-rc3 from Broadcom looks good. The following is a list of tests executed with 21.08-rc3:

- Basic functionality:
Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
- testpmd xstats counter test.
- RSS tests.
- VLAN filtering tests.
- Rx Checksum tests
- TSO tests.
- MTU and Jumbo frame tests
- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
- Unicast/multicast MAC filtering tests
- VXLAN/Geneve Rx CSO, TSO, RSS tests

We don't see any critical issues blocking the release.

Regards,
Kalesh

Regards,
Kalesh A P

Hi
IBM - Power Systems
DPDK 21.08-rc3

* Basic PF on Mellanox: No new issues or regressions were seen.
* Performance: not tested.

Systems tested:
- IBM Power9 PowerNV 9006-22P
OS: RHEL 8.3
GCC: version 8.3.1 20191121 (Red Hat 8.3.1-5) NICs:
- Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
- firmware version: 16.29.1017
- MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-1.0.4.1 (OFED-5.2-1.0.4)

- LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-42B
OS: RHEL 8.4
GCC: gcc version 8.4.1 20200928 (Red Hat 8.4.1-1) NICs:
- Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
- firmware version: 16.30.1004
- MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.2

Regards,
Thinh Tran

Hi Thomas and all,
Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk21.08-rc3 test is finished. No critical issue is found.
One bug about https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768 is found, Nvidia's Dev. is working on 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, etc.
- All tests are done. All passed.
*Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu20.04 and Fedora34.
- All tests are done. All passed.
*PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- All tests are done. One new issue(Bugzilla id 768) is found.
*VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- All tests are done. One new issue(Bugzilla id 768) is found.
*PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Share code update/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
- All tests are done. No new issue is found except known issues. Intel Dev. are working on them.
*Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, RFC2544 Zero packet loss performance test, etc.
- All tests are done. All passed. No big performance drop.
*Power and IPsec:
* Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
- All tests are done. All passed.
* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- All tests are done. All passed.
# 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 7.0u2, etc.
- All tests are done. No new issue is found except known issues.
1),Split ring pvp can't receive imix pkts when using vswitch app
2),virtio memory access out of bounds in virtio_check_scatter_on_all_rx_queues
3),vswitch_sample_cbdma: forward 8k packet failed when relaunch dpdk-vhost, refer to https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771 & https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772
4),vhost virtio loopback test failed when enqueue with cbdma
*Cryptodev:
*Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
- All tests are done. No new issue is found except known issue.
*Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
- All tests are done. No big performance drop.
Best regards,
Yu Jiang

04/08/2021 13:38, Jiang, YuX:

No, there is no work on NVIDIA side, because it seems to reveal an issue on Intel driver side, as I said in the mail thread.

Ok. Thanks Thomas, we will check it on Intel side.