release candidate 22.11-rc1

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Oct 11 03:50:14 CEST 2022


A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v22.11-rc1

There are 737 new patches in this snapshot,
including many API/ABI compatibility breakages.
This release won't be ABI-compatible with previous ones.

Release notes:
	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_22_11.html

Highlights of 22.11-rc1:
	- LoongArch build
	- Intel uncore frequency control
	- multiple mbuf pools per Rx queue
	- Rx buffer split based on protocol
	- hardware congestion management
	- hairpin memory configuration
	- Rx/Tx descriptor dump
	- flow API extensions
	- MACsec processing offload
	- ShangMi crypto algorithms
	- baseband FFT operations
	- eventdev Tx queue start/stop
	- eventdev crypto vectorization
	- NitroSketch membership

Some work is in progress to optimize the mempool cache.
Some patches are part of -rc1, and more could be merged in -rc2.
Please measure the performance of this release candidate,
and check these mempool patches:
	https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=25063

Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.

DPDK 22.11-rc2 is expected in two weeks.

Thank you everyone




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