[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 21.02-rc2

[Pei Zhang]

Hello Thomas,

The testing with dpdk 21.02-rc2 from Red Hat looks good. We tested below 17 scenarios and all got PASS on RHEL8:

(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)vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: ovs reconnect: PASS
(10)PVP 1Q live migration testing: PASS
(11)PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing: PASS
(12)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing: PASS
(13)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M): PASS
(14)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing: PASS
(15)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing: PASS
(16)Host PF + DPDK testing: PASS
(17)Host VF + DPDK testing: PASS

Versions:

kernel 4.18
qemu 5.2

dpdk: git://dpdk.org/dpdk  
# git log -1
commit b07b80fe1cbd7bdaffa75d4d34417aca536c1aba (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD)
Author: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>
Date:   Mon Feb 1 13:19:46 2021 +0000

    eventdev: fix a return value comment
    
    The PMD info get API has a void return type. Remove the
    @return 0 Success doxygen comment as it doesn't make sense here.
    
    Fixes: 5223a1f3b8de ("eventdev: define southbound driver interface")
    Cc: stable at dpdk.org
    
    Reported-by: Fredrik A Lindgren <fredrik.a.lindgren at tietoevry.com>
    Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>


# git branch
* main

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

Best regards,

Pei




----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Monjalon" <thomas at monjalon.net>
To: announce at dpdk.org
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2021 9:23:23 AM
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 21.02-rc2

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v21.02-rc2

There are 293 new patches in this snapshot,
more than expected for a light release cycle.

Release notes:
	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.html

Highlights of 21.02-rc2:
	- new pmdinfogen with Windows support
	- power management for core polling single ethdev queue
	- Marvell OCTEON TX EP net PMD
	- Mellanox compress PMD
	- Virtio PMD rework

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

The -rc3 should include only some bug fixes, cleanups, doc and tooling.

Next Thursday (February 4) should be the day of closing 21.02-rc3.
The goal is to complete the release before the Chinese New Year
to allow a quiet rest during the Spring Festival.

Thank you everyone