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
