release candidate 22.03-rc1

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:

	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v22.03-rc1

There are 481 new patches in this snapshot.
This release cycle is quiet and should be small.

Release notes:

	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.html

Highlights of 22.03-rc1:
- fast restart by reusing hugepages
- UDP/TCP checksum on multi-segments
- IP reassembly offload
- queue-based priority flow control
- private ethdev driver info dump
- private user data in asymmetric crypto session

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

DPDK 22.03-rc2 is expected in two weeks.

Thank you everyone

# 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, Fedora35, RHEL8.4, RHEL8.5 etc.
- All test passed.
- Two known issue, one ishttps://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=928 still exist;
other is about dpdk-next-virtio/dpdk-next-net-brcm I40E/ICE_16BYTE_RX_DESC meson build failure with gcc10.3 on ubuntu20.04,due to miss patch:
http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/, please backport this patch to the two next branch.
*Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu20.04 and RHEL8.4.
- All test passed.
* PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- Execution rate is 80%. No new issue is found yet.
* VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- Execution rate is 80%.
- Known issue about "vf tso: the larger tcp pkt not segmented correct fragments" has v2 fix:
https://patches.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/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
- Execution rate is 80%. Four new bugs are found, Intel devs are 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.
- Execution rate is 90%, no new issue is found.
* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- All test 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.
- Two new bugs are found, Intel devs are under investigating.
* Cryptodev:
*Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
- Execution rate is 60%, no new issue is found.
*Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
- Execution rate is 60%. No big performance drop.

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk22.03-rc1 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, Fedora35, RHEL8.4, RHEL8.5 etc.
- All test passed.
- One known issue: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=928 still exist.
*Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu20.04 and RHEL8.4.
- All test passed.
* PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- All test done. Three new bugs are found, Intel dev is under investigating.
* VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- All test done.
- Known issue about "vf tso: the larger tcp pkt not segmented correct fragments" has v2 fix can fix it:
https://patches.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/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
- All test done. Four new bugs are found, Intel devs are under investigating.
* 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 test passed.
* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- All test 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. One known issue about vxlan has fix: http://patchwork.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.
- Most test done, One new issue is found.
*Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
- Most test done. No new issue is found.

BRs,
Yu Jiang