[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 21.11-rc1

[Thinh Tran]

Hi
IBM - Power Systems
DPDK v21.11-rc1-63-gbb0bd346d5

* 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
On 10/25/2021 4:40 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v21.11-rc1
> 
> There are 1171 new patches in this snapshot, big as expected.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.html
> 
> Highlights of 21.11-rc1:
> * General
> 	- more than 512 MSI-X interrupts
> 	- hugetlbfs subdirectories
> 	- mempool flag for non-IO usages
> 	- device class for DMA accelerators
> 	- DMA drivers for Intel DSA and IOAT
> * Networking
> 	- MTU handling rework
> 	- get all MAC addresses of a port
> 	- RSS based on L3/L4 checksum fields
> 	- flow match on L2TPv2 and PPP
> 	- flow flex parser for custom header
> 	- control delivery of HW Rx metadata
> 	- transfer flows API rework
> 	- shared Rx queue
> 	- Windows support of Intel e1000, ixgbe and iavf
> 	- testpmd multi-process
> 	- pcapng library and dumpcap tool
> * API/ABI
> 	- API namespace improvements (mempool, mbuf, ethdev)
> 	- API internals hidden (intr, ethdev, security, cryptodev, eventdev, cmdline)
> 	- flags check for future ABI compatibility (memzone, mbuf, mempool)
> 
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> DPDK 21.11-rc2 is expected in two weeks or less.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
>