release candidate 23.11-rc2

[Thinh Tran]

IBM - Power Systems
DPDK v23.11-rc2-3-gde0ec3c245


* Build CI on Fedora 30,31,34,36,37,38 for ppc64le
* Basic PF on Mellanox: No issue found
* Performance: not tested.
* OS: RHEL 9.2  kernel: 5.14.0-284.25.1.el9_2.ppc64le
         with gcc version 11.3.1 20221121 (Red Hat 11.3.1-4) (GCC)
       RHEL 8.6  kernel: 4.18.0-348.el8.ppc64le
         with gcc version 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-10) (GCC)


Systems tested:
  - LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A
     NICs:
     - Mellanox Mellanox Technologies MT2894 Family [ConnectX-6 Lx]
     - firmware version: 26.38.1002
     - MMLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.07-0.5.0.2

Regards,
Thinh Tran

On 11/6/2023 4:22 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v23.11-rc2
> 
> There are 320 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_23_11.html
> 
> Highlights of 23.11-rc2:
> 	- RSS algorithm management
> 	- maximum Rx buffer size
> 	- nfp vDPA driver
> 	- graph application
> 
> There were a lot of updates in drivers.
> The driver features should be frozen now.
> 
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> 
> DPDK 23.11-rc3 is expected in approximately one week.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
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