release candidate 23.03-rc1

[Jiang, YuX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 12:49 AM
> To: announce at dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 23.03-rc1
>
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
>       https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v23.03-rc1
>
> There are 566 new patches in this snapshot.
>
> Release notes:
>       https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_23_03.html
>
> Highlights of 23.03-rc1:
>       - lock annotations
>       - ARM power management monitor/wakeup
>       - queue mapping of aggregated ports
>       - flow quota
>       - more flow matching (ICMPv6, IPv6 routing extension)
>       - more flow actions (flex modify, congestion management)
>       - SHAKE hash algorithm for crypto
>       - LZ4 algorithm for compression
>       - more telemetry endpoints
>       - more tracepoints
>
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
>
> DPDK 23.03-rc2 is expected in two weeks.
>
> Thank you everyone
>
Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk23.03-rc1 test execution rate is 70%. No critical issue is found.
# 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, Fedora37, RHEL8.6/9.1 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 with latest dpdk.
* Meson test & Asan test:
    new issue:
        - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1162 [dpdk-23.03][asan]ERROR: AddressSanitizer: global-buffer-overflow on address 0x000014eff508 at pc 0x00000173c234 bp 0x7fff7993bdd0 sp 0x7fff7993bdc8
    known issue:
        - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1107 [22.11-rc1][meson test] seqlock_autotest test failed
        - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1123 [dpdk-22.11][asan] the stack-buffer-overflow was found when quit testpmd in Redhat9
* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
        - Execution rate is 90%.
        - Find 1 new bug:
            [dpdk-23.03] generic_flow_api/fdir_for_ipv6: packets of match rule cannot be allocated to the specified queue. -> Intel dev is under investigating.
* 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%. No new issue is found.
* 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%.
        - Find 1 performance drop issue, bad commit is 4f8259df5 (net/iavf: enable Tx outer checksum offload on AVX512).
        new fix patch link: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230222081311.74488-1-zhichaox.zeng@intel.com/
* Power and IPsec:
 * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
        - Execution rate is 50%. No new issue is found.
 * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
        - Execution rate is 50%. No new issue is found.
# 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 8.0, etc.
        - Execution rate is 80%. No new issue is found.
* Cryptodev:
 *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
        - Execution rate is 50%. No new issue is found.
 *Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
        - Execution rate is 50%. No performance drop.

Best regards,
Yu Jiang