[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 21.05-rc2

[Jiang, YuX]

All,

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk21.05-rc2 test is almost finished, find 1 critical bad commit id: "b7aaf417f9 raw/ioat: add bus driver for device scanning automatically",
which blocked most of VF/kni test. Bruce has worked on this and has provided patch(http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20210506150908.797110-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com/ ) to fix.
The patch has been verified passed by Validation team and applied by Thomas in May-10.

# 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, CentOS Stream 8, etc.
                        - All passed.
                *Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu20.04 and CentOS Stream 8.
                        - All passed.

        * PF(i40e, ixgbe and igb): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
                - All tests are done.
                - 3 new bugs about critical bad commit id and DPDK PF+DPDK VF:launch testpmd failed by using VF are found.
                - 7 bugs are found in RC1 still not be fixed. 2 bugs have dpdk patch which is not merged, 2 bugs are belong to HSD issue.
                        > 3 bugs are reported in bugzilla:
                                * https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687
                                * https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688   (nvidia dev has provided patch, but not be merged in RC2.)
                                * https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693
                        > Other bugs are about csum fwd mode can not transmit packet,i40e ddp_gtp flow_director_filter take no effect, etc. Intel Dev. are working on them.

        * VF(i40e, ixgbe and igb): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
                - All tests are done. Besides issue about DPDK PF+DPDK VF: launch testpmd failed by using VF blocked test, others are known issues.

        * 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 tests are done.
                - 2 bugs about rss_pppoe add rss cfg failed and ip_fragment_pf_rss hash issue are found in RC2, others are known issues.
                - Issues about QinQ&DCF issues in RC1 have been fixed in RC2, GTPOGRE issue has dpdk patch, but not been merged in RC2. Intel Dev. are working on other bugs.

        * Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, RFC2544 Zero packet loss performance test, etc.
                - All passed.
                - Issue about perf drops about 20% when use iavf to test multi-queue single core performance in RC1 has been fixed in RC2.

        * Power and IPsec:
                * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency and so on.
                        - All tests are done. Besides critical bad commit id issue, no new issue is found.
                        - Issue about launch dpdk-l3fwd-power failed in RC1 has been fixed in RC2.
                * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-secgw
                        - All tests are failed due to critical bad commit id b7aaf417f9, but test passed by using Bruce's new patch.
                        - Issue about ipsec-secgw test failed is found in RC1 has been fixed in RC2.

# 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 7.0u2, etc.
                - All tests are done.
                - 3 new issues are found except known issue.
                        > 1 bug is reported in bugzilla: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699

        * Cryptodev:
                *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
                        - All passed except known issue.
                *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
                        - All passed. No big perf drop.

Best regards,
Yu Jiang

>-----Original Message-----
>From: dev <dev-bounces at dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon
>Sent: Thursday, May 6, 2021 7:04 AM
>To: announce at dpdk.org
>Subject: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 21.05-rc2
>
>A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
>       https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v21.05-rc2
>
>There are 296 new patches in this snapshot, most of them adding or fixing
>features in drivers.
>
>Release notes:
>       https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.html
>
>Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
>
>DPDK 21.05-rc3 is expected in one week.
>If there are exceptional issues to meet the schedule, especially in India, let's
>discuss how we can accomodate.
>
>Thank you everyone, take care.
>