19.11.14 patches review and test

[Jiang, YuX]

Hi All,

Update the test status for Intel part. DPDK19.11.14-rc1 validation test is almost finished, no critical issue is found, but find some new bugs for build and power management.
New defects for build: No fix yet.
	https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1140 
	https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1141 
	https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1142 
New defects for power management: also find on LTS20.11.7
    	Compilation error compiling dpdk with vm_power_manager sample app. -- Intel dev is under investigating.
Known defects for build: No fix yet.
	https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=912 
	https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=985
	https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991
	https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1121
	https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1064
# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* Build: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04&22.04, Fedora36, RHEL8.4, etc.
	- All test done. Lots of build issues have no fix, including new  and known.
* PF&VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. 
	- All test done. No new bug is found.
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx, etc.
	- All test done. No new issue is found. 
* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test etc.
	- All test done. No big performance drop.
# 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, etc.
	- All test done. No new issue is found.
* Cryptodev: 
* Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/ etc.
	- All test done. No new issue is found.
* Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
	- All test done. No performance drop.

Best regards,
Yu Jiang

> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: 19.11.14 patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.14.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is Tue 12th December 2022.
> 
> Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report any
> issues/results with reply-all to this mail. For the final release the fixes and
> reported validations will be added to the release notes.
> 
> A release candidate tarball can be found at:
> 
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v19.11.14-rc1
> 
> These patches are located at branch 19.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> 
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