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

[Pei Zhang]

Hello Thomas,

The testing with dpdk 21.11-rc1 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 post copy live migration testing: PASS
(12)PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing: PASS
(13)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing: PASS
(14)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M): PASS
(15)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing: PASS
(16)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing: PASS
(17)Host PF + DPDK testing: PASS
(18)Host VF + DPDK testing: PASS

Versions:
kernel 4.18
qemu 6.1

dpdk: git://dpdk.org/dpdk
# git log -1
commit 6c390cee976e33b1e9d8562d32c9d3ebe5d9ce94 (HEAD -> main, tag:
v21.11-rc1)
Author: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
Date:   Mon Oct 25 22:42:47 2021 +0200

    version: 21.11-rc1

    Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>


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

Best regards,

Pei

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 5:41 AM Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> 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
>
>
>