release candidate 23.07-rc1

[Xu, HailinX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 5:39 AM
> To: announce at dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 23.07-rc1
> 
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v23.07-rc1
> 
> There are 574 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.html
> 
> Highlights of 23.07-rc1:
> 	- AMD CDX bus
> 	- PCI MMIO read/write
> 	- new flow patterns: Tx queue, Infiniband BTH
> 	- new flow actions: push/remove IPv6 extension
> 	- indirect flow rule list
> 	- flow rule update
> 	- vhost interrupt callback
> 	- VDUSE in vhost library
> 	- more ShangMi crypto algorithms
> 	- PDCP library
> 	- removed LiquidIO driver
> 
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> 
> DPDK 23.07-rc2 is expected in approximately two weeks.
> 
> This release candidate comes late, maintainers need more help.
> Renewing the maintainers staff and getting more reviews are topics under
> discussion in the techboard meetings.
> 	https://core.dpdk.org/techboard/minutes/
> 
> Thank you everyone

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk23.07-rc1 test execution rate is 50%. 2 critical issues have been found.
critical issues:
    1. [dpdk-23.07] ice_switch_filter/test_mac_ipv4_tcp_pipeline_mode: Failed to create rule -> Intel dev is under investigating
    2. [dpdk-23.07] no probed ethernet devices after starting testpmd with ICX-D -> Intel dev is under investigating
# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* Build or compile:  
 *Build: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04.5, Ubuntu22.04.2, Fedora38, RHEL8.7/9.2, Centos7.9, OpenAnolis8.8, CBL-Mariner2.0 etc.
  - All test passed.
 *Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu22.04.2 and RHEL9.0.
  - All test passed with latest dpdk.
* Meson test & Asan test: 
    known issue:
	    - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1107 [22.11-rc1][meson test] seqlock_autotest test failed
	    - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1123 [dpdk-22.11][asan] the stack-buffer-overflow was found when quit testpmd in Redhat9
* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. 
	- Execution rate is 90%. Find 1 new bug: 
        https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1249: [dpdk-23.07] ixgbe port stop failed after launch testpmd -> No fix yet
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
	- Execution rate is 50%. Find 2 new bugs: critical issues 1&2
* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, RFC2544 Zero packet loss performance test, etc.
	- Execution rate is 50%. No new issue is found
* Power and IPsec: 
 * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc. 
	- Execution rate is 50%. No new issue is found. 
 * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
	- On going. No new 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.
	- Execution rate is 80%. Find 1 new issue:
        [dpdk-23.07] start dpdk-pdump in VM with virtio-0.95 protocol failed -> Intel dev is under investigating
* Cryptodev: 
 *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
	- On going. No new issue is found. 
 *Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
	- On going. No performance drop.


Regards,
Xu, Hailin
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