21.11.3 patches review and test

[Jiang, YuX]

Hi All,

Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk21.11.3-rc1 validation test is almost finished, no critical issue is found.
Total find 3 bugs, 2 bugs are fixed on latest stable 21.11.
BUG1: vf_interrupt_pmd/nic_interrupt_VF_vfio_pci: l3fwd-power Wake up failed on X722 37d0
	- Find on DPDK22.11, it has fix patch: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20221117065726.277672-1-kaisenx.you@intel.com/
	- This patch still have comment, need Intel dev continue to investigate.
# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* Build&CFLAG compile: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04&22.04, Fedora36, RHEL8.4, etc.
  - All test passed. 
* PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. 
  - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found. 
* VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.		
  - All test done. Only find one bug as the above BUG1. 
* 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 dpdk issue is found. 
* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, etc.
  - All test done. No big performance drop.
* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
  - All test done.
* Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc. 
  - All test passed.	
# 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. 
* Cryptodev: 
  *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
    - All test done. 
  *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
    - All test done. No big performance drop.

Best regards,
Yu Jiang

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 7:30 PM
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> Subject: 21.11.3 patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.3.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is 19th December.
> 
> Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report any
> issues/results with reply-all to this mail. For the final release the fixes and
> reported validations will be added to the release notes.
> 
> A release candidate tarball can be found at:
> 
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v21.11.3-rc1
> 
> These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kevin
> 
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