release candidate 22.07-rc1

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:

	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v22.07-rc1

There are 576 new patches in this snapshot,
constituting what the reviewers and maintainers were able to handle.

Release notes:

	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_22_07.html

Highlights of 22.07-rc1:
- initial RISC-V support
- sequence lock
- protocol-based metering
- Rx threshold event
- SFP telemetry
- async vhost improvements
- vhost library statistics
- vmxnet3 versions 5 & 6
- ECDH crypto
- DMA device telemetry
- SWX pipeline improvements
- integration as Meson subproject

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

DPDK 22.07-rc2 is expected in two weeks.

Thank you everyone

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk22.07-rc1 test execution rate is 80%. No critical issue is found.

# 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, Ubuntu22.04, Fedora36, RHEL8.6 etc.
- All test done. Find 1 new bug.
- https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1016 [dpdk-22.07*] drivers/net/ice meson build failed with gcc12.1.1 on Fedora36/64
Intel Dev is under investigating. No fix yet.
*Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu22.04 and RHEL8.6.
- All test done. Find 3 new bugs.
- https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1032 [dpdk 22.07-rc1] app/test/test_cryptodev meson build failed with cflag param optimization=1 on Ubuntu22.04 &&RHEL8.6 with gcc11.2.0&&8.5.0 Has fix, and verify passed
- https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1033 [dpdk 22.07-rc1] app/test-flow-perf meson build failed with cflag param optimization=1 on Ubuntu22.04 &&RHEL8.6 with gcc11.2.0&&8.5.0 Has fix, and verify passed
- https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1029 [dpdk 22.07-rc1] drivers/net/cxgbe meson build failed with cflag param optimization=1 on Ubuntu22.04 &&RHEL8.6 with gcc11.2.0&&8.5.0 Has fix, and verify passed

* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- Execution rate is 80%. Find 1 new issue: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1028#c0, no fix yet.

* 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 4 new issues, Intel dev is under investigating.

* 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 big performance drop.

* Power and IPsec:
* Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
- All test passed.
* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- Execution rate is 60%. Find 2 new issues, one has fix and verify passed. Other is https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034, no fix yet.

# 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.
- Execution rate is 80%. Find 3 new bugs, Intel dev is under investigating.

* Cryptodev:
*Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
- Execution rate is 80%. No new issue is found
*Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
- Execution rate is 80%. No new issue is found.

Best regards,
Yu Jiang

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk22.07-rc1 test execution rate is 90%. No critical issue is found.

# 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, Ubuntu22.04, Fedora36, RHEL8.6 etc.
- All test done. Find 1 new bug.
- https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1016 [dpdk-22.07*] drivers/net/ice meson build failed with gcc12.1.1 on Fedora36/64
Intel Dev is under investigating. No fix yet.
*Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu22.04 and RHEL8.6.
- All test done. Find 3 new bugs.
- https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1032 [dpdk 22.07-rc1] app/test/test_cryptodev meson build failed with cflag param optimization=1 on Ubuntu22.04 &&RHEL8.6 with gcc11.2.0&&8.5.0 Has fix, and verify passed based on dpdk main + bug1029's fix patch.
- https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1033 [dpdk 22.07-rc1] app/test-flow-perf meson build failed with cflag param optimization=1 on Ubuntu22.04 &&RHEL8.6 with gcc11.2.0&&8.5.0 Has fix, and verify passed based on dpdk main + bug1029's fix patch.
- https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1029 [dpdk 22.07-rc1] drivers/net/cxgbe meson build failed with cflag param optimization=1 on Ubuntu22.04 &&RHEL8.6 with gcc11.2.0&&8.5.0 Has fix, and verify passed.

* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- Execution rate is 99%. Find 1 new issue: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1028#c0, no fix yet.

* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
- Execution rate is 95%. Find 6 new issues, Intel dev is under investigating.

* 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 90%. No big performance drop.

* Power and IPsec:
* Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
- All test passed.
* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- Execution rate is 90%. Find 2 new issues, one has fix and verify passed. Other is https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034, no fix yet.

# 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.
- Execution rate is 90%. Find 6 new bugs, Intel dev is under investigating.

* Cryptodev:
*Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
- Execution rate is 90%, Virito_cryptodev is under testing. No new issue is found.
*Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
- Execution rate is 90%. No new issue is found.

Best regards,
Yu Jiang

Hi,

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:
Items:
- conntrack
- ecpri
- eth
- flex
- geneve
- geneve_opt
- gre
- gre_key
- gre_option
- gtp
- gtp_psc
- icmp
- icmp6
- integrity
- ipv4
- ipv6
- ipv6_frag_ext
- mark
- meta
- mpls
- nvgre
- phy_port
- port_id
- tag
- tcp
- udp
- vlan
- vxlan
- vxlan_gpe
- esp

Actions:
- age
- conntrack
- count
- dec_tcp_ack
- dec_tcp_seq
- dec_ttl
- drop
- flag
- inc_tcp_ack
- inc_tcp_seq
- jump
- mark
- meter
- modify_field
- nvgre_decap
- nvgre_encap
- of_pop_vlan
- of_push_vlan
- of_set_vlan_pcp
- of_set_vlan_vid
- port_id
- queue
- raw_decap
- raw_encap
- represented_port
- rss
- sample
- set_ipv4_dscp
- set_ipv4_dst
- set_ipv4_src
- set_ipv6_dscp
- set_ipv6_dst
- set_ipv6_src
- set_mac_dst
- set_mac_src
- set_meta
- set_tag
- set_tp_dst
- set_tp_src
- set_ttl
- vxlan_decap
- vxlan_encap
- Some RSS tests.
- VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion tests.
- Checksum and TSO tests.
- ptype tests.
- link_status_interrupt example application tests.
- l3fwd-power example application tests.
- Multi-process example applications tests.
- Hardware LRO tests.
- Regex application tests.
- Buffer Split tests.
- Tx scheduling tests.

PS: We are internally investigating a few test failures, and we'll send fixes if necessary.

Thanks,
Wael Abualrub

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:

        https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v22.07-rc1

There are 576 new patches in this snapshot,
constituting what the reviewers and maintainers were able to handle.

Release notes:

        https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_22_07.html

Highlights of 22.07-rc1:
- initial RISC-V support
- sequence lock
- protocol-based metering
- Rx threshold event
- SFP telemetry
- async vhost improvements
- vhost library statistics
- vmxnet3 versions 5 & 6
- ECDH crypto
- DMA device telemetry
- SWX pipeline improvements
- integration as Meson subproject

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

DPDK 22.07-rc2 is expected in two weeks.

Thank you everyone