release candidate 22.03-rc2

[Jiang, YuX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jiang, YuX <yux.jiang at intel.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 6:57 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>; Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>; Sun,
> QingX <qingx.sun at intel.com>
> Subject: RE: release candidate 22.03-rc2
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2022 5:02 AM
> > To: announce at dpdk.org
> > Subject: release candidate 22.03-rc2
> >
> > A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> >       https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v22.03-rc2
> >
> > There are 306 new patches in this snapshot.
> >
> > Release notes:
> >       https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.html
> >
> > Highlights of 22.03-rc2:
> >       - ethdev flow API for templates and async operations
> >       - Marvell GPIO driver for CNXK
> >
> > The driver features should be frozen now.
> > Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> >
> > DPDK 22.03-rc3 is expected in one week.
> >
> > Thank you everyone
> >
Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk22.03-rc2 test execution rate is 80%. No critical issue is found.

# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* Build or compile:  
 *Build: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang/ICC version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Fedora35, RHEL8.4, RHEL8.5 etc.
  - All test passed.
  - One known issue https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=928, use "meson setup -Ddisable_drivers=event/cnxk" to build.
 *Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu20.04 and RHEL8.4.
  - All test done. 
  - One new bug https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939 is found.
   > Rakesh Kudurumalla provides a patch, but we verify failed with gcc10.3.0+kernel-5.8.0-48-generic on Ubuntu20.04.

* PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. 
 - Execution rate is 80%. One new bug https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=944 is found. 
  
* VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.		
 - Execution rate is 80%. 
 - One new bug about "vf_daemon/vf_mtu: VF setting MTU in DPDK then send one packet ,VF0 can't receive and transmit packet", Intel dev  is 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 90%. 
 - One new bug about "https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=941 [dpdk-22.03] core dump when create fdir rule with bad arguments" is found. 
   > It has been fixed by patch https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220301224739.3072563-1-akozyrev@nvidia.com/	

* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, RFC2544 Zero packet loss performance test, etc.
 - All test 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.
  - All test done. 
  - One new bug about "Failure with testing crypto -ipsec-secgw with AUTH-GMAC" is found.
    > It has fix: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220301134133.1886839-1-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. One new bug https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=940 is found.
* Cryptodev: 
 *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
  - Execution rate is 20%. One new bug about "Failed to run cryptodev_qat_asym_autotest" is found. Intel dev is investigating.
 *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
  - Execution rate is 20%.

BRs
Yu Jiang