[dpdk-announce] release candidate 21.11-rc2

[Pei Zhang]

Hello Thomas,

The testing with dpdk 21.11-rc2 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 cross numa node live migration testing: PASS
(12)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing: PASS
(13)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M): PASS
(14)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing: PASS
(15)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing: PASS
(16)Host PF + DPDK testing: PASS
(17)Host VF + DPDK testing: PASS
(18)vDPA + host DPDK basic testing: PASS

Versions:
kernel 4.18
qemu 6.2

dpdk: git://dpdk.org/dpdk
# git log -1
commit f4801fdb7828f45ddc4ada148b1b0a230a226570 (HEAD -> main, tag:
v21.11-rc2)
Author: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
Date:   Tue Nov 9 00:45:12 2021 +0100

    version: 21.11-rc2

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


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

Best regards,

Pei

On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 8:45 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-rc2
>
> There are 448 new patches in this snapshot.
>
> Release notes:
>         https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.html
>
> Highlights of 21.11-rc2:
>         - Toeplitz hash using Galois Fields New Instructions (GFNI)
>         - virtio RSS
>         - vhost power monitor wakeup
>         - Xilinx vDPA driver
>         - DMA drivers for HiSilicon and Marvell CNXK
>         - GPU device class library
>         - AddressSanitizer (ASan) integration for debug
>         - more API internals hidden (ip_frag, vDPA)
>
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> Some bugs found with ASan are tagged and can be found with this query:
>         https://bugs.dpdk.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=[asan]
>
> DPDK 21.11-rc3 is expected in one week or less.
>
> Thank you everyone
>
>
>
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