[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.08-rc3

[Pei Zhang]

Hello Thomas,

Testing with dpdk 20.08-rc3 from Red Hat looks good.

We cover below 16 scenarios and and all get PASS on RHEL8 testing:

(1)Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size): PASS
(2)Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size) : PASS
(3)Guest with device assignment(VF) throughput testing: PASS
(4)PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing: PASS
(5)PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing: PASS
(6)PVP vhost-user 1Q - cross numa node throughput testing: PASS
(7)Guest with vhost-user 2 queues throughput testing: PASS
(8)vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: qemu reconnect: PASS
(9)PVP 1Q live migration testing: PASS
(10)PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing: PASS
(11)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing: PASS
(12)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M): PASS
(13)Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing: PASS
(14) Allocate memory from the NUMA node which Virtio device locates: PASS
(15)Host PF + DPDK testing: PASS
(16)Host VF + DPDK testing: PASS

Versions:

kernel 4.18
qemu 5.1
dpdk: git://dpdk.org/dpdk master
# git log -1
commit 6636b04b82897816e0e05134f55a578cb7e124bc (HEAD -> master, tag: v20.08-rc3, origin/releases, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
Date:   Fri Jul 31 01:37:05 2020 +0200

    version: 20.08-rc3
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>


NICs: X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)

Best regards,

Pei

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Monjalon" <thomas at monjalon.net>
To: announce at dpdk.org
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2020 7:59:31 AM
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.08-rc3

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v20.08-rc3

There are 138 new patches in this snapshot.

Release notes:
	http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.html
A lot of deprecation notices are expected.

The -rc4 will include only critical bug fixes, doc and tooling.
You may share some release validation results
by replying to this message (at dev at dpdk.org).

Please share your roadmap for 20.11 so we can prioritize tasks.
Planning is especially important to avoid flooding maintainers.

Thank you everyone