21.11.1 patches review and test

[Jiang, YuX]

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> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
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> Subject: 21.11.1 patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.1.
> 
> Please try and complete validation by April 13th.
> 
> 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=v21.11.1-rc1
> 
> These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> ---

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk21.11.1-rc1 test rate is 90%. Till now, no critical issue is found.
Failure defect:  
Bug1: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992 [dpdk 21.11.1-rc1] drivers/net/cnxk/cnxk_ethdev_mtr meson build failed with cflag param optimization=1 on Ubuntu20.04 with GCC10.3
 > It was found in 22.03-rc2(https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939), validation team apply 939's patch failed. Need new patch for LTS21.11.1-rc1.

# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* Build&CFLAG compile: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang/ICC version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Fedora35, RHEL8.4, etc.
- All test done. Find new bug: Bug1, not fix.
* PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. 
- All test done. No new dpdk issue is found. 
* VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.		
- All test done. No new dpdk issue is found. 	
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
- All test done. No new dpdk issue is found. 
* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, etc.
- All test done. No big performance drop.
* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- All test passed.
* Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc. 
- All test passed.
		
# 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 7.0u3, etc.
- All test done. No new issue is found.
* Cryptodev: 
*Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
- Test rate: 80%, no new issue is found currently.
*Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
- Test rate: 80%, no new issue is found currently.

BRs
Yu Jiang