release candidate 24.03-rc3

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:

	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v24.03-rc3

There are 153 new patches in this snapshot.

Release notes:

	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_24_03.html

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

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

DPDK 24.03-rc4 should be the last release candidate. The final release should be done on 27th if no surprise.

Thank you everyone

IBM - Power Systems
DPDK v24.03-rc3-2-gc96e9ca312

* Build CI on Fedora 30,37,38,39,40 container images for ppc64le
* Basic PF on Mellanox: No issue found
* Performance: not tested.
* OS:- RHEL 9.3 kernel: 5.14.0-362.2.1.el9_3.ppc64le with gcc version 11.4.1 20230605 (Red Hat 11.4.1-2)
- RHEL 9.2 kernel: 5.14.0-284.52.1.el9_2.ppc64le with gcc version 11.3.1 20221121 (Red Hat 11.3.1-4) (GCC)

- SLES 15-SP5 ppc64le kernel: 5.14.21-150500.55.44-default
with gcc version 12.3.0 (SUSE Linux)

Systems tested:
- LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A
NICs:
- Mellanox Mellanox Technologies MT2894 Family [ConnectX-6 Lx]
- firmware version: 26.40.1000
- MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.01-0.3.3.5

Regards,
Thinh Tran

Hi,

The following is the testing report for 24.03-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:
See: 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

Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk24.03-rc3 all test is done. not found new issue.

# 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 Ubuntu23.10, Ubuntu22.04.3, Fedora39, RHEL8.9/9.2, Centos7.9, FreeBSD14.0, SUSE15, OpenAnolis8.8, CBL-Mariner2.0 etc.
- All test passed.
*Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu22.04.3 and RHEL9.2.
- 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. No new issue is found.
* PF/VF(igc): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- All test case is done. No new issue is found.
* 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.
* 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; IPsec; DLB; DSA dmadev:
* 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.
* DLB: test scenarios including DLB2/DLB2.5
- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
* DSA dmadev: - Execution rate is done. found the second issue.
# 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