release candidate 22.07-rc2

[Jiang, YuX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jiang, YuX
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2022 4:32 PM
> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>; dev (dev at dpdk.org)
> <dev at dpdk.org>
> Cc: Devlin, Michelle <michelle.devlin at intel.com>; Mcnamara, John
> <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; Qi Z Zhang (qi.z.zhang at intel.com)
> <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
> Subject: RE: release candidate 22.07-rc2
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> > Sent: Monday, June 27, 2022 10:15 AM
> > To: announce at dpdk.org
> > Subject: release candidate 22.07-rc2
> >
> > 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
> >
>
> Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk22.07-rc2 test execution
> rate is 85%. Till now, two P2-high issues are found.
> Intel Dev have provided fix and test passed, other common issues need to
> be confirmed and fixed by Intel Dev.
>
> # 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, Ubuntu22.04, Fedora36,
> RHEL8.6 etc.
>   - All test passed.
>
> * PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-
> RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
>       - Execution rate is 85%. Find 3 new issues, two have fix, other is
> under investigating.
>
> * PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package
> Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible
> Descriptor, etc.
>       - Execution rate is 100%.
>       - Find 1 new issue about "ice_iavf_fdir: the ipv4/6 gtpu_eh rule not
> take effect",
>               - bad commit id is commit
> 0718b7716c9516fca458695f7a0195b1f45d4778 (HEAD, refs/bisect/bad)
>                       Author: Gregory Etelson <getelson at nvidia.com>
>                       Date:   Thu Jun 16 21:01:03 2022 +0300
>                       net: fix GTP PSC headers
>
> * Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single
> core performance test, RFC2544 Zero packet loss performance test, etc.
>       - Execution rate is 100%, all passed.  No big performance drop.
>
> * Power and IPsec:
>  * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll
> Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
>   - All test passed.
>  * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test -
> QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
>       - Execution rate is 20%. Known issue:
> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034, V2 patch is under verified.
>
> # 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 7.0u3, etc.
>       - Execution rate is 90%. Find 2 new issue. Intel dev is under
> investigating.
>
> * Cryptodev:
>  *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev
> ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
>       - Execution rate is 90%. Find 1 new issues. Intel dev is under
> investigating.
>  *Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance
> /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
>       - Execution rate is 90%.  No new issue is found.
>
> Best regards,
> Yu Jiang

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk22.07-rc2 test is almost finished. Till now, four P2-high issues are found.
Two of them are fixed, other two are under investigated by Intel Dev.

# 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, Ubuntu22.04, Fedora36, RHEL8.6 etc.
  - All test passed.

* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
        - All test done. Find 4 new issues, one has fix, others are under investigated by Intel Dev.

* 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 2 new issues, one is https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1044 which is under investigated by Intel Dev.

* 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 big performance drop.

* Power and IPsec:
 * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
  - All test passed.
 * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
        - All test done.
        - Known issue: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034, has fix patches which are accepted and test passed.
        https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220629164607.2317125-1-radu.nicolau@intel.com/
        https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220630114527.2392332-1-radu.nicolau@intel.com/

# 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 7.0u3, etc.
        - All test done. Find 4 new issues, Intel Dev is under investigating.

* Cryptodev:
 *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
        - All test done. Find 1 new issues about "cryptodev_openssl_asym_autotest test failed", has fix and verify passed.
        http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220630103848.36515-1-kai.ji@intel.com/
 *Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
        - All test done.  No new issue is found.

Best regards,
Yu Jiang