release candidate 21.11-rc2

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:

	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v21.11-rc2

There are 448 new patches in this snapshot.

Release notes:

	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.html

Highlights of 21.11-rc2:
- Toeplitz hash using Galois Fields New Instructions (GFNI)
- virtio RSS
- vhost power monitor wakeup
- Xilinx vDPA driver
- DMA drivers for HiSilicon and Marvell CNXK
- GPU device class library
- AddressSanitizer (ASan) integration for debug
- more API internals hidden (ip_frag, vDPA)

Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
Some bugs found with ASan are tagged and can be found with this query:
https://bugs.dpdk.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=[asan]

DPDK 21.11-rc3 is expected in one week or less.

Thank you everyone

All,

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk21.11-rc2 test execution rate is 85%. No critical issue is found. But has some about missing '_mm512_set_epi8' support build issues. Intel has already sent a fix:
Patch Link: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/

# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* Build or compile:
*Build: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang/ICC version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Fedora34, RHEL8.4, etc.
- All test done.
- One bug about lib/librte_power.a.p build failed on OS Fedora35 with clang 13.0.0 is found.
- Has fix patch for litrte_power, verify patch but find new failure, report bugzilla for new failure about fslmc.
*Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu20.04 and Fedora34.
- All passed.
* PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- Execution rate is 90%. No new issue is found.
- One bug(https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=864) pmd_stacked_bonded/test_mode_backup_rx:after setup stacked bonded ports,start top level bond port.
- still verify failed.
* VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- Execution rate is 85%. No new issue is found.
- Known issues: Intel dev is investigating.
b, ixgbe_vf_get_extra_queue_information/ test_enable_dcb: executing "port config 0 dcb vt on 4 pfc off" failed under testpmd: has fix patch, but verify failed.
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Share code update/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
- Execution rate is 90%.
- Two bugs about dcf_qos, cvl_qinq, Intel dev is under investigating.
- One bug about stats_checks/xstats_check_vf: 'clear port xstats all' cannot clear xstats of port, has fix and verify passed.
- Fix patch link: 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.
- 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 passed.
* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- All passed.
# 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. No new issue is found.
- Known issue:
- One about VMware ESXI 7.0U3: failed to start port. 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%.
- One new bug about "cryptodev_qat_asym_autotest is resulting in segmentation fault" is found in 21.11rc2.
*Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
- Execution rate is 80%. No big performance drop.

Thanks, I added more details in https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=881

David Marchand

Hello Thomas,

The testing with dpdk 21.11-rc2 from Red Hat looks good. We tested below 18 scenarios and all got PASS on RHEL8:

(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)vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: ovs reconnect: PASS (10)PVP 1Q live migration testing: PASS
(11)PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing: PASS (12)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing: PASS (13)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M): PASS (14)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing: PASS (15)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing: PASS (16)Host PF + DPDK testing: PASS
(17)Host VF + DPDK testing: PASS
(18)vDPA + host DPDK basic testing: PASS

Versions:
kernel 4.18
qemu 6.2

dpdk: git://dpdk.org/dpdk

# git log -1
commit f4801fdb7828f45ddc4ada148b1b0a230a226570 (HEAD -> main, tag:
v21.11-rc2)
Author: Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Nov 9 00:45:12 2021 +0100

version: 21.11-rc2

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

Best regards,

Pei

Hi Thomas,

The testing with dpdk 21.11-rc2 from Broadcom looks good. The following is a list of tests executed with 21.11-rc2:

- Basic functionality:
Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
- Stats check tests
- RSS tests
- VLAN Offload Tests
- RX/TX Checksum Offload Tests
- Dynamic queue test
- Transmit Segmentation Offload (TSO) Tests
- DPDK Hotplug API Tests
- MTU and Jumbo frame tests
- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
- Unicast/multicast MAC filtering tests
- VXLAN/Geneve Rx CSO, TSO, RSS tests
- Port Start Stop Tests

We don't see any critical issues blocking the release.

Regards,
Kalesh

Regards,
Kalesh A P

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk21.11-rc2 validation test is almost finished. No critical issue is found.
# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* Build or compile:
*Build: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang/ICC version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Fedora34, RHEL8.4, etc.
- All test done.
- One bug about lib/librte_power.a.p build failed on OS Fedora35 with clang 13.0.0 is found.
- Has fix patch for litrte_power, verify patch but find new failure, report bugzilla https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88 1 for new failure about fslmc.
*Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu20.04 and RHEL8.4.
- All passed.
* PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- All test done.
- One bug is found during 21.11rc2. Intel dev is investigating them.
[dpdk21.11][foxville]When the value of MTU is greater than 1500,a packet is sent which is 8 larger than the MTU, packets can still be received
- One known bug(https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=864) pmd_stacked_bonded/test_mode_backup_rx:after setup stacked bonded ports,start top level bond port.
- still verify failed.
* VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- All test done.
- Two bugs are found during 21.11rc2. Intel dev is investigating them.
[dpdk-21.11]vf_jumboframe/test_vf_jumbo_withjumbo: launch testpmd failed on driver ixgbe-5.13.4
[dpdk-21.11] vf_vlan/add_pvid_vf: launch testpmd showing error log after vf vlan in kernel pf
- One known issues: ixgbe_vf_get_extra_queue_information/ test_enable_dcb: executing "port config 0 dcb vt on 4 pfc off" failed under testpmd: has fix and verify passed.
- Hax fix patch which is applied to dpdk-next-net/main, link: http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Share code update/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
- All test done.
- Six bugs about dcf_qos, cvl_qinq, multi-process, Intel dev is under investigating.
- One bug about stats_checks/xstats_check_vf: 'clear port xstats all' cannot clear xstats of port, has fix and verify passed.
- Fix patch which is applied to dpdk-next-net-intel link: 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 big performance drop.
* Power and IPsec:
* Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
- All passed.
* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- All passed.
# 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. No new issue is found.
- Known issue:
- One about VMware ESXI 7.0U3: failed to start port. Intel Dev is under investigating.
* Cryptodev:
*Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
- All test done.
- One new bug about "cryptodev_qat_asym_autotest is resulting in segmentation fault" is found in 21.11rc2.
- Has fix and verify passed. Link: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/
*Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
- All test done. No big performance drop.

Hi
IBM - Power Systems
DPDK v21.11-rc2-101-g329f73eb35

* Basic PF on Mellanox: No new issues or regressions were seen.
* Performance: not tested.

Systems tested:
- IBM Power9 PowerNV 9006-22P
OS: RHEL 8.4
GCC: version 8.3.1 20191121 (Red Hat 8.3.1-5) NICs:
- Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
- firmware version: 16.29.1017
- MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-1.0.4.1 (OFED-5.2-1.0.4)

Regards,
Thinh Tran