release candidate 22.11-rc1

[Thinh Tran]

Hello,

IBM - Power Systems
DPDK 22.11.0-rc1


* Basic PF on Mellanox: No new issues or regressions were seen.
* Performance: not tested.
* OS: RHEL 8.5  kernel: 4.18.0-348.el8.ppc64le
         with gcc version 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-10)
       RHEL 9.0  kernel: 5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0.ppc64le
         with gcc version 11.2.1 20220127 (Red Hat 11.2.1-9)

Systems tested:
  - IBM Power9 PowerNV 9006-22P
     NICs:
      - Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
      - firmware version: 16.34.1002
      - MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.7-1.0.2.1 (OFED-5.7-1.0.2)

  - LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A
     NICs:
     - Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
     - firmware version: 16.34.1002
     - MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.7-1.0.2.1 (OFED-5.7-1.0.2)

Regards,
Thinh Tran

On 10/10/2022 8:50 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 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
> 
>