release candidate 20.11-rc1

dpdk-dev Thomas Monjalon 2 participants 2 messages Oct 20, 2020 – Oct 29, 2020

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Thomas Monjalon

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2020-10-20 16:50 UTC #0 lore raw

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:

	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v20.11-rc1

There are 1265 new patches in this snapshot, being the biggest -rc1 ever. Like the previous LTS, the API of this -rc1 is exceptionnally not frozen. More major changes are pending for -rc2.

Release notes:

	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.html

Highlights of 20.11-rc1, grouped by category:
* General
- write combining store API
- prefetch with intention to write API
- cldemote API
- SIMD bitwidth limit API
- Windows PCI netuio
- moved igb_uio to dpdk-kmods/linux
- removed Python 2 support
- removed Make support
* Networking
- CRC optimization for Intel AVX-512
- FEC API
- Rx buffer split
- thread safety in flow API
- shared action in flow API
- flow sampling and mirroring
- tunnel offload API
- multi-port hairpin
- Solarflare EF100 architecture
- vhost-vDPA backend in virtio-user
- removed vhost dequeue zero-copy
- SWX pipeline aligned with P4
* Baseband
- Intel ACC100 driver
* Cryptography
- raw datapath API
- Broadcom BCMFS symmetric crypto driver
* RegEx
- Marvell OCTEON TX2 regex driver
* Others
- ACL optimized for Intel AVX-512
- Intel DSA support in IOAT driver

Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org. DPDK 20.11-rc2 is expected at the end of this month. Let's be reactive and focus on this important milestone.

Thank you everyone

Pei Zhang

2020-10-29 03:45 UTC #1 lore raw

Hello Thomas,

Testing with dpdk 20.11-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 5.1
dpdk: git://dpdk.org/dpdk

# git log -1
commit c3afd1cba69bd7a900fd63c02cc87fba8d74430a
...

# git branch
* main

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

Best regards,

Pei

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Monjalon" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 12:50:13 AM
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.11-rc1

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:

	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v20.11-rc1

There are 1265 new patches in this snapshot, being the biggest -rc1 ever. Like the previous LTS, the API of this -rc1 is exceptionnally not frozen. More major changes are pending for -rc2.

Release notes:

	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.html

Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org. DPDK 20.11-rc2 is expected at the end of this month. Let's be reactive and focus on this important milestone.

Thank you everyone