release candidate 22.07-rc2

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk22.07-rc2 test execution rate is 85%. Till now, two P2-high issues are found. Intel Dev have provided fix and test passed, other common issues need to be confirmed and fixed by Intel Dev.

# 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 passed.

* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- Execution rate is 85%. Find 3 new issues, two have fix, other is under investigating.

* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
- Execution rate is 100%.
- Find 1 new issue about "ice_iavf_fdir: the ipv4/6 gtpu_eh rule not take effect",
- bad commit id is commit 0718b7716c9516fca458695f7a0195b1f45d4778 (HEAD, refs/bisect/bad)
Author: Gregory Etelson <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Jun 16 21:01:03 2022 +0300
net: fix GTP PSC headers

* 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 100%, all passed. 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 20%. Known issue: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034, V2 patch is under verified.

# 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 2 new issue. 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%. Find 1 new issues. Intel dev is under investigating.
*Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
- Execution rate is 90%. No new issue is found.

Best regards,
Yu Jiang

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk22.07-rc2 test is almost finished. Till now, four P2-high issues are found. Two of them are fixed, other two are under investigated by Intel Dev.

# 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 passed.

* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- All test done. Find 4 new issues, one has fix, others are under investigated by Intel Dev.

* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
- All test done. Find 2 new issues, one is https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1044 which is under investigated by Intel Dev.

* 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 done.
- Known issue: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034, has fix patches which are accepted and test passed.
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/

# 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. Find 4 new issues, 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. Find 1 new issues about "cryptodev_openssl_asym_autotest test failed", has fix and verify passed.
http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/
*Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
- All test done. No new issue is found.

Best regards,
Yu Jiang

The testing with dpdk 22.07-rc2 from AMD looks good. Following functional testing is done:

* Basic NIC IO forwarding (single/multiple queues/cores)
* Basic cryptodev
* AES-CBC128 SHA1-HMAC
* AES-CBC128 SHA2-256-HMAC
* AES-GCM-128

Systems tested:
- Platform: AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor (2 Socket)
OS: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
NICs:
- Mellanox MLX5 CX-6

Tuning guide: AMD Milan DPDK tuning guide (BIOS and Kernel)
(https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/data-plane-development-kit-tuning-guide-amd-epyc7003-series-processors.pdf)

Thanks to the team that did the testing, I am just a messenger ;)

Hi
IBM - Power Systems
DPDK v22.07-rc2

* Basic PF on Mellanox: No new issues or regressions were seen.
* Performance: not tested.
* OS: RHEL 8.5 kernel: 4.18.0-372.9.1.el8.ppc64le

        with gcc version 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-10)
      RHEL 9.0  kernel: 5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0.ppc64le
        with gcc version 11.2.1 20220127 (Red Hat 11.2.1-9)

Systems tested:
- IBM Power9 PowerNV 9006-22P
NICs:
- Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
- firmware version: 16.33.1400
- MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.6-1.0.3.6

- LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A
NICs:
- Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
- firmware version: 16.33.1400
- MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.6-1.0.3.6

Regards,
Thinh Tran