release candidate 22.03-rc4

[Jiang, YuX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 9:21 AM
> To: announce at dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 22.03-rc4
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> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
>       https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v22.03-rc4
>
> There are 31 new patches in this snapshot.
>
> Release notes:
>       https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.html
>
> This is the last release candidate.
> Only documentation should be updated before the release.
>
> You may share some release validation results by replying to this message at
> dev at dpdk.org and by adding tested hardware in the release notes.
>
> Please think about sharing your roadmap now for DPDK 22.07.
>
> Thank you everyone
>

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk22.03-rc4 test is finished. 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 known issue https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939,
    > It has fix which has been merged into latest dpdk, but new error "raw/ifpga" build failed is found,
    > Intel dev has provided patch, and verify passed. http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220316072630.1916479-1-wei.huang@intel.com/

* PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
 - All test done. No new issue is found.

* VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
 - All test done. No new issue, known issue about "stats_checks/test_xstats_check_vf: pkt not recieve when rx_mode=novector", has fix but not merged.

* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
 - All test done. No new issue is found.

* 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. One new issue is found, Intel dev is investigating.

# 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. Two known bugs, have fix but not merged.

* Cryptodev:
 *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
  - All test done. Two known issues, Intel dev is investigating.
 *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
  - All test done.