release candidate 23.11-rc1

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:

	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v23.11-rc1

There are 617 new patches in this snapshot, including many API/ABI compatibility breakages. This release won't be ABI-compatible with previous ones.

Release notes:

	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_23_11.html

Highlights of 23.11-rc1:
- build requires C11 compiler
- early support of MSVC build
- new atomic operations API
- power management on AMD CPU
- mbuf recycling
- flow action type for P4-defined actions
- flow group miss action
- flow item for packet type matching
- TLS record offload
- security Rx inject
- eventdev link profiles
- eventdev adapter for dmadev
- event dispatcher library

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

DPDK 23.11-rc2 is expected in approximately two weeks.

Thank you everyone

Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk23.11-rc1 all test execution is done. found 8 new issues.

New issues:

1. kernelpf_dcf/dcf_information: port stats cannot be reset in dcf. -> Intel dev is under investigating

2. Fix Tx offloading flags check. -> Has fix patch

3. core dumped occurred when exit testpmd with representor port. -> Has fix patch

4. core dumped occurred after test csum fwd. -> Has fix patch

5. https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303 hotplug_mp/attach_detach_dev_primary_cross_loop: re-attach dev failed in multiple processes. -> Has fix patch

6. vm2vm_virtio_user_dsa/test_split_non_mergeable_multi_queues_payload_check_with_kernel_driver: virtio-user1 not receive packet. -> Intel dev is under investigating

7. [mev] Core dumped when starting testpmd with representor port. -> Has fix patch

8. https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1304: l3fwd-power example fails to run with uncore options, -U -u and -i. -> has fix patch

# 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, Ubuntu22.04.3, Fedora38, RHEL8.7/9.2, Centos7.9, OpenAnolis8.8, CBL-Mariner2.0 etc.

- All test passed.

*Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu22.04.2 and RHEL9.0.

- All test passed with latest dpdk.

* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.

- Execution rate 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. found 1&3&4&5 issues.

* MEV test: test scenarios including PF/TSO/MTU/Jumboframe/checksum offload, etc

- Execution rate is done. found 7 issue.

* 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 and IPsec:

* Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.

- Execution rate is done. found 8 issue.

* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.

- Execution rate is done. found 2 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 8.0, etc.

- Execution rate is done. found 6 issue.

* 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

IBM - Power Systems
DPDK v23.11-rc1-29-g32faaf3073

* Build CI on Fedora 30,31,34,36,37,38 for ppc64le
* Basic PF on Mellanox: No issue found
* Performance: not tested.
* OS: RHEL 9.2 kernel: 5.14.0-284.25.1.el9_2.ppc64le

        with gcc version 11.3.1 20221121 (Red Hat 11.3.1-4) (GCC)
      RHEL 8.6  kernel: 4.18.0-348.el8.ppc64le
        with gcc version 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-10) (GCC)

Systems tested:
- LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A
NICs:
- Mellanox Mellanox Technologies MT2894 Family [ConnectX-6 Lx]
- firmware version: 26.38.1002
- MMLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.07-0.5.0.2

Regards,
Thinh Tran