release candidate 23.03-rc2

[Jiang, YuX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2023 11:27 PM
> To: announce at dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 23.03-rc2
>
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
>       https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v23.03-rc2
>
> There are 319 new patches in this snapshot.
>
> Release notes:
>       https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_23_03.html
>
> Few major additions arrived in this -rc2:
>       - machine learning inference device API
>       - platform bus
>       - open link speed to 400G
> There were a lot of updates in drivers, including new ones:
>       - Intel cpfl IPU driver
>       - Marvell CNXK machine learning inference The driver features should
> be frozen now.
>
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> Do not forget to review examples, tests and documentation updates.
>
> DPDK 23.03-rc3 is expected in one week.
>
> Thank you everyone
>
Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk23.03-rc2 test execution is almost finished. 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.
* Meson test & Asan test:
    new issue:
        - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1184 [dpdk-23.03] [asan]asan_smoke/rxtx_with_ASan_enable : launch testpmd as global-buffer-overflow error.
                - Can be fixed patch: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230316094808.3253873-1-adwivedi@marvell.com/ which is "Accepted".
    known issue:
        - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1135 [DPDK-22.11][asan]vhost_event_idx_interrupt/wake_up_split_ring_vhost_user_cores_with_event_idx_interrupt_mode_16_queues the backend feedback EAL Error when relunch the dpdk-l3fwd
                - Can be fixed by patch: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=27306&archive=both&state=* which is "Awaiting Upstream".
        - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=956 [dpdk-22.03][asan] dpdk-pdump: detected memory leaks when quit dpdk-pdump
                - Not fix yet.
        - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1024 [dpdk-22.07][meson test] driver-tests/link_bonding_mode4_autotest bond handshake failed
                - Not fix yet.
        - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1107 [22.11-rc1][meson test] seqlock_autotest test failed.
                - Special issue with gcc 4.8.5.
        - [dpdk-23.03]meson_tests/test_perf: start pmd_perf_autotest failed on NIC X722 37D2 -- Intel dev is still under investigating.
* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
        - All test done. No new issue is found.
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
        - All test done.
        - Find 1 new issue: [dpdk-23.03] IAVF: after setting tx vlan, the receive tx pkt not have vlan tag in avx512 mode
                - Can be fixed by patch: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230315084617.432821-1-zhichaox.zeng@intel.com/ which is "Awaiting Upstream".
* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, RFC2544 Zero packet loss performance test, etc.
        - All test done. No new issue is found.
* Power and IPsec:
 * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
        - All test done.
 * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
        - All test done.
# 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.
        - All test done.
        - Found 1 issue: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1181 [DPDK-23.03]loopback_virtio_user_server_mode_cbdma: testpmd can't loop packets after start dpdk-pdump app Immediately
                - Can be fixed by patch: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230317165941.62619-1-stephen@networkplumber.org/ which is "Accepted".
* Cryptodev:
 *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
        - All test done. No new issue is found.
        - Known issue:
                - [23.03 RC1] some of the compressdev_isal_pmd & compressdev_qat_pmd tests are failing
                        - Can be fixed by patch: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230310162705.182352-1-ciara.power@intel.com/ which is "Accepted".
                - [DPDK-23.03 RC1] cryptodev_qat_asym_autotest missing in meson_test.
                        - Can be fixed by patch: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=27275&archive=both&state=* which is "Accepted".
 *Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
        - All test done. No performance drop.

Best regards,
Yu Jiang