[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 21.11-rc2

[Thinh Tran]

Hi
IBM - Power Systems
DPDK v21.11-rc2-101-g329f73eb35

* 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 11/8/2021 6:45 PM, Thomas Monjalon 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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