release candidate 21.11-rc3

[Thinh Tran]

Hi
IBM - Power Systems
DPDK 21.11-rc3

* 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: gcc version 8.4.1 20200928 (Red Hat 8.4.1-1)
     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)

  - LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A
     OS: RHEL 8.4
     GCC: gcc version 8.4.1 20200928 (Red Hat 8.4.1-1)
     NICs:
     - Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
     - firmware version: 16.24.8000
     - MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.4-2.4.1.5

Regards,
Thinh Tran


On 11/17/2021 1:30 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v21.11-rc3
> 
> There are 178 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.html
> 
> Highlights of 21.11-rc3:
> 	- NXP DPAA DMA driver
> 	- NXP ENETFEC networking driver
> 	- NVIDIA CUDA driver
> 
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> It would be nice to fix bugs found with ASan:
> 	https://bugs.dpdk.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=[asan]
> 
> You may share some release validation results
> by replying to this message at dev at dpdk.org.
> 
> DPDK 21.11-rc4 should be the last chance for bug fixes and doc updates
> before the major release.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
>