release candidate 22.11-rc2

[Jiang, YuX]

Hi All,

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk22.11-rc2 test execution rate is 65%. No new critical issue is found, known critical issue is still under fixing. 
Known Critical bug: [22.11-rc1]iavf macfwd performance drop 40%, Intel dev has fix which is under verifying internally.
Meson test bugs:
  1, https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1118 [dpdk-22.11.0rc1][meson test] driver-tests/link_bonding_autotest test failed core dumped
    Can be fixed by https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20221031131744.2340150-1-ivan.malov@oktetlabs.ru/ & https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20221101161853.2702425-1-ivan.malov@oktetlabs.ru/
  2, https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1107 [22.11-rc1][meson test] seqlock_autotest test failed, which is only found on CentOS7.9/gcc4.8.5.

# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* Build or compile:  
 *Build: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04.5, Ubuntu22.04.1, Ubuntu22.10, Fedora36, RHEL8.6 etc.
  - All test passed.
 *Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu22.04.1 and RHEL8.6.
  - All test passed.
* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. 
	- Execution rate is 80%. Find one new issue.
	- Bug "vf_interrupt_pmd/nic_interrupt_VF_vfio_pci: l3fwd-power Wake up failed" on X722 37d0. Intel Dev is under investigating it.
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
	- Execution rate is 80%. Find one new issue.
	- Bug "[dpdk-22.11] ice_advanced_iavf_rss_gtpogre: create rule failed". 
	  - Can be fixed by http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20221031064233.256917-1-stevex.yang@intel.com/	
* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, RFC2544 Zero packet loss performance test, etc.
	- Execution rate is 80%. No new issue is found, except Known Critical bug:[22.11-rc1]iavf macfwd performance drop 40%.
* Power and IPsec: 
 * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc. 
	- Execution rate is 60%. No new issue is found yet.
 * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
	- Execution rate is 30%. Find one issue, Intel dev is under investigating.
# Basic cryptodev and virtio testing
* Virtio: both function and performance test are covered. Such as PVP/Virtio_loopback/virtio-user loopback/virtio-net VM2VM perf testing/VMAWARE ESXI 7.0u3, etc.
	- All test done. 
	- Bug https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1119 [dpdk-22.11]pvp_virtio_bonding/vhost_virtio_bonding_mode_from_0_to_6: start bonding device failed and core dumped when quit testpmd"
	  - Can be fixed by https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20221101161853.2702425-1-ivan.malov@oktetlabs.ru/
* Cryptodev: 
 *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
	- Under testing. 
	- Bug "Performance tests involving Software Crypto are failing"
	  - Intel dev has provide patch: http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20221102232503.67970-1-kai.ji@intel.com/, which is under verifying.
 *Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
	- Under testing.

Best regards,
Yu Jiang

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 8:16 AM
> To: announce at dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 22.11-rc2
> 
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v22.11-rc2
> 
> There are 422 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_22_11.html
> 
> There were a lot of updates in drivers, including 3 new drivers:
> 	- GVE (Google Virtual Ethernet)
> 	- IDPF (Intel DataPlane Function or Infrastructure DataPath Function)
> 	- UADK (User Space Accelerator Development Kit) supporting HiSilicon
> crypto The driver features should be frozen now.
> 
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> 
> Thank you everyone
>