[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.08-rc1

[Pei Zhang]

Hello all,

Testing with dpdk 20.08-rc1 from Red Hat looks good.

We cover below 16 scenarios and and all get PASS on RHEL8 testing:

(1)Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size): PASS
(2)Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size) : PASS
(3)Guest with device assignment(VF) throughput testing: PASS
(4)PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing: PASS
(5)PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing: PASS
(6)PVP vhost-user 1Q - cross numa node throughput testing: PASS
(7)Guest with vhost-user 2 queues throughput testing: PASS
(8)vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: qemu reconnect: PASS
(9)PVP 1Q live migration testing: PASS
(10)PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing: PASS
(11)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing: PASS
(12)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M): PASS
(13)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing: PASS
(14) Allocate memory from the NUMA node which Virtio device locates: PASS
(15)Host PF + DPDK testing: PASS
(16)Host VF + DPDK testing: PASS

Versions:

kernel 4.18
qemu 5.0
dpdk: git://dpdk.org/dpdk master

    git log -1
    commit 466032ef8012a7fddd8dda986c5977e9341e3c35 (HEAD -> master, tag: v20.08-rc1, origin/releases, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
    Author: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
    Date: Mon Jul 13 02:50:06 2020 +0200

version: 20.08-rc1

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>

NICs: X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)


Best regards,

Pei


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Monjalon" <thomas at monjalon.net>
To: announce at dpdk.org
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2020 8:58:30 AM
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.08-rc1

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v20.08-rc1

There are 778 new patches in this snapshot.

Release notes:
	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.html

Highlights of 20.08-rc1, grouped by category:
* General
	- external thread registration API
	- bit operations API for drivers
	- VFIO PF with VF token
* Networking
	- eCPRI offload with flow API
	- Tx scheduling offload
* Cryptography
	- crypto-CRC chained operation for DOCSIS protocol
* RegEx
	- new device class API for future RegEx drivers
* Tools
	- testpmd 5-tuple swap for L2/L3/L4
	- performance test application for flow rules
	- l2fwd forwarding between asymmetric ports

We must complete this release cycle in the beginning of August.
DPDK 20.08-rc2 is expected in one week on July 20.

Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.

We should publish the roadmap for DPDK 20.11 now.

Thank you everyone