release candidate 22.11-rc2

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:

	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v22.11-rc2

There are 422 new patches in this snapshot.

Release notes:

	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_22_11.html

There were a lot of updates in drivers, including 3 new drivers:
- GVE (Google Virtual Ethernet)
- IDPF (Intel DataPlane Function or Infrastructure DataPath Function)
- UADK (User Space Accelerator Development Kit) supporting HiSilicon crypto
The driver features should be frozen now.

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

Thank you everyone

Hi All,

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk22.11-rc2 test execution rate is 65%. No new critical issue is found, known critical issue is still under fixing. Known Critical bug: [22.11-rc1]iavf macfwd performance drop 40%, Intel dev has fix which is under verifying internally.
Meson test bugs:
1, https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1118 [dpdk-22.11.0rc1][meson test] driver-tests/link_bonding_autotest test failed core dumped

    Can be fixed by https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/ & https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/

2, https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1107 [22.11-rc1][meson test] seqlock_autotest test failed, which is only found on CentOS7.9/gcc4.8.5.

# 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 Ubuntu20.04.5, Ubuntu22.04.1, Ubuntu22.10, Fedora36, RHEL8.6 etc.
- All test passed.
*Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu22.04.1 and RHEL8.6.
- All test passed.
* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- Execution rate is 80%. Find one new issue.
- Bug "vf_interrupt_pmd/nic_interrupt_VF_vfio_pci: l3fwd-power Wake up failed" on X722 37d0. Intel Dev is under investigating it.
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
- Execution rate is 80%. Find one new issue.
- Bug "[dpdk-22.11] ice_advanced_iavf_rss_gtpogre: create rule failed".
- Can be fixed by http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/
* 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 80%. No new issue is found, except Known Critical bug:[22.11-rc1]iavf macfwd performance drop 40%.
* Power and IPsec:
* Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
- Execution rate is 60%. No new issue is found yet.
* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- Execution rate is 30%. Find one issue, Intel dev is under investigating.
# 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 7.0u3, etc.
- All test done.
- Bug https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1119 [dpdk-22.11]pvp_virtio_bonding/vhost_virtio_bonding_mode_from_0_to_6: start bonding device failed and core dumped when quit testpmd"
- Can be fixed by https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/
* Cryptodev:
*Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
- Under testing.
- Bug "Performance tests involving Software Crypto are failing"
- Intel dev has provide patch: http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/, which is under verifying.
*Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
- Under testing.

Best regards,
Yu Jiang

Hi All,

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk22.11-rc2 test is almost finished. No new critical issue is found. Known Critical bug: [22.11-rc1]iavf macfwd performance drop 40%, Intel dev has reverted the patch, but no acked-by. Meson test bugs:
1, https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1118 [dpdk-22.11.0rc1][meson test] driver-tests/link_bonding_autotest test failed core dumped

    Can be fixed by https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/ & https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/

2, https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1107 [22.11-rc1][meson test] seqlock_autotest test failed, which is only found on CentOS7.9/gcc4.8.5. No fix yet. 3, https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1024 [dpdk-22.07][meson test] driver-tests/link_bonding_mode4_autotest bond handshake failed. No fix yet.
Asan test bugs:
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1123 [dpdk-22.11][asan] the stack-buffer-overflow was found when quit testpmd in Redhat9. No fix yet.

# 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 Ubuntu20.04.5, Ubuntu22.04.1, Ubuntu22.10, Fedora36, RHEL8.6 etc.
- All test passed.
*Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu22.04.1 and RHEL8.6.
- All test passed.
* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- All test done. Find 3 new issues. Intel Dev is under investigating it.
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
- All test done. Find 2 new issue. Intel Dev is under investigating it.
- Bug "[dpdk-22.11] ice_advanced_iavf_rss_gtpogre: create rule failed".
- Can be fixed by http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/
* idpf PMD and GVE PMD: basic test.
- All test done. Find 2 new issues.
- Bug "Fail to configure port rxd/txd", can be fixed by https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/
- Bug "tso can't take work", can be fixed by https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/
* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, RFC2544 Zero packet loss performance test, etc.
- All test done. No new issue is found, except Known Critical bug:[22.11-rc1]iavf macfwd performance drop 40%.
* Power and IPsec:
* Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
- All test done. Find 1 new issue.
- Bug "Uncore values unchanged and core dump when running uncore option with l3fwd-power",
- can be fixed by https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/
* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- All test done. Find 1 new issue.
- Bug "IPSEC-SECGW Segfault when testing DPDK 22.11 RC2 validation", has fix.

# 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 7.0u3, etc.
- All test done.
- Bug https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1119 [dpdk-22.11]pvp_virtio_bonding/vhost_virtio_bonding_mode_from_0_to_6: start bonding device failed and core dumped when quit testpmd"
- Can be fixed by https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/
* Cryptodev:
*Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
- All test done. Find two bugs.
- Bug "[DPDK 22.11 RC2] Performance tests involving Software Crypto are failing", has fix and applied to dpdk-next-crypto.
- Bug "[dpdk22.11 RC2] Unit test case is failing with segmentation fault", has fix and applied to dpdk-next-crypto.
*Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
- All test done. No big perf drop.

Best regards,
Yu Jiang

Hi,

IBM - Power Systems
DPDK 22.11.0-rc2

* Basic PF on Mellanox: No new issues or regressions were seen.
* Performance: not tested.
* OS: RHEL 8.5 kernel: 4.18.0-348.el8.ppc64le

        with gcc version 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-10)
      RHEL 9.0  kernel: 5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0.ppc64le
        with gcc version 11.2.1 20220127 (Red Hat 11.2.1-9)

Systems tested:
- IBM Power9 PowerNV 9006-22P
NICs:
- Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
- firmware version: 16.34.1002
- MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.7-1.0.2.1 (OFED-5.7-1.0.2)

- IBM Power10 PowerVM IBM,9105-22A
NICs:
- Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
- firmware version: 16.34.1002
- MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.7-1.0.2.1 (OFED-5.7-1.0.2)

Regards,
Thinh Tran