22.11.7 patches review and test

[Xu, HailinX]

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> From: luca.boccassi at gmail.com <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
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> Subject: 22.11.7 patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 22.11.7.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is December 17th.
> 
> 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=v22.11.7-rc1
> 
> These patches are located at branch 22.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Luca Boccassi

Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk22.11.7-rc1 all validation test done. Found 1 meson test bug.

new issue:
    Bug 1589 - meson_tests/driver link_bonding_autotest test failed  -> This issue also exists on 24.11

# 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
  Ubuntu24.04, Ubuntu24.10, Fedora40, RHEL8.10, RHEL9.4, FreeBSD14.1, SUSE15, AzureLinux3.0, OpenAnolis8.9 etc.
- All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
* PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. 
- All test done. Found 1 meson test bug.
* VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.		
- All test done. Found 1 meson test bug.
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
- All test done. Found 1 meson test bug.
* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, etc.
- All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- All test done. No new dpdk 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 done. No new dpdk issue is found.
* Cryptodev: 
  *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
    - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
  *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance/Cryptodev Latency, etc.
    - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.


Regards,
Xu, Hailin