release candidate 22.07-rc2

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 6/27/2022 3:15 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v22.07-rc2
> 
> There are 317 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_22_07.html
> 
> There were a lot of updates in drivers.
> The driver features should be frozen now.
> 
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> Do not forget to review examples and documentation updates.
> 
> DPDK 22.07-rc3 is expected in one week (targetting end of June).
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 

The testing with dpdk 22.07-rc2 from AMD looks good.
Following functional testing is done:

* Basic NIC IO forwarding (single/multiple queues/cores)
* Basic cryptodev
	* AES-CBC128 SHA1-HMAC
	* AES-CBC128 SHA2-256-HMAC
	* AES-GCM-128

Systems tested:
   - Platform: AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor (2 Socket)
      OS: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
      NICs:
       - Mellanox MLX5 CX-6


Tuning guide: AMD Milan DPDK tuning guide (BIOS and Kernel)
(https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/data-plane-development-kit-tuning-guide-amd-epyc7003-series-processors.pdf)


Thanks to the team that did the testing, I am just a messenger ;)