release candidate 23.11-rc4

[Xu, HailinX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2023 10:28 AM
> To: announce at dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 23.11-rc4
> 
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v23.11-rc4
> 
> There are 58 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_23_11.html
> 
> There are more doc and tools updates to be merged before closing this
> release cycle.
> 
> Please check there is no major bug.
> 
> 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.
> 
> The final release should happen at the end of this week.
> 
> Please think about sharing your roadmap now for DPDK 24.03.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk23.11-rc4 all test is done. found one new issues.

New issues:
1. command "port 0 txq 0 tx_offload vlan_insert off/on" reported an error. -> Intel dev is under investigating

# 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 Ubuntu20.04.5, Ubuntu22.04.3, Fedora38, RHEL8.7/9.2, Centos7.9, OpenAnolis8.8, CBL-Mariner2.0 etc.
  - All test passed.
 *Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu22.04.2 and RHEL9.0.
  - All test passed with latest dpdk.

* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. 
  - All test case is done. found 1 issue.
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
  - All test case is done. found 1 issue.
* MEV test: test scenarios including PF/TSO/MTU/Jumboframe/checksum offload, etc
  - All test case is 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 case is done. No new issue is found.
* Power and IPsec: 
 * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc. 
  - All test case is done. No new issue is found.
 * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
  - All test case is done. No new issue is found.
# 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 8.0, etc.
  - All test case is done. No new issue is found.
* Cryptodev: 
 *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
  - All test case is done. No new issue is found. 
 *Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
  - All test case is done. No new issue is found.

Regards,
Xu, Hailin