1. DPDK Release 20.11

1.1. New Features

Added write combining store APIs.

Added rte_write32_wc and rte_write32_wc_relaxed APIs that enable write combining stores (depending on architecture). The functions are provided as a generic stub and x86 specific implementation.
Added prefetch with intention to write APIs.

Added new prefetch function variants e.g. rte_prefetch0_write, which allow the programmer to prefetch a cache line and also indicate the intention to write.
Added the rte_cldemote API.

Added a hardware hint CLDEMOTE, which is similar to prefetch in reverse. CLDEMOTE moves the cache line to the more remote cache, where it expects sharing to be efficient. Moving the cache line to a level more distant from the processor helps to accelerate core-to-core communication. This API is specific to x86 and implemented as a stub for other architectures.
Added support for limiting maximum SIMD bitwidth.

Added a new EAL config setting max_simd_bitwidth to limit the vector path selection at runtime. This value can be set by apps using the rte_vect_set_max_simd_bitwidth function, or by the user with EAL flag --force-max-simd-bitwidth.
Added zero copy APIs for rte_ring.

For rings with producer/consumer in RTE_RING_SYNC_ST, RTE_RING_SYNC_MT_HTS modes, these APIs split enqueue/dequeue operation into three phases (enqueue/dequeue start, copy data to/from ring, enqueue/dequeue finish). Along with the advantages of the peek APIs, these provide the ability to copy the data to the ring memory directly without the need for temporary storage.
Updated CRC modules of the net library.
- Added runtime selection of the optimal architecture-specific CRC path.
- Added optimized implementations of CRC32-Ethernet and CRC16-CCITT using the AVX512 and VPCLMULQDQ instruction sets.
Introduced extended buffer description for receiving.

Added the extended Rx buffer description for Rx queue setup routine providing the individual settings for each Rx segment with maximal size, buffer offset and memory pool to allocate data buffers from.
Added the FEC API, for a generic FEC query and config.

Added the FEC API which provides functions for query FEC capabilities and current FEC mode from device. An API for configuring FEC mode is also provided.
Added thread safety to rte_flow functions.

Added the RTE_ETH_DEV_FLOW_OPS_THREAD_SAFE device flag to indicate whether a PMD supports thread safe operations. If the PMD doesn’t set the flag, the rte_flow API level functions will protect the flow operations with a mutex.
Added flow-based traffic sampling support.

Added a new action RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_SAMPLE that will sample the incoming traffic and send a duplicated traffic with the specified ratio to the application, while the original packet will continue to the target destination.

The packets sampling is ‘1/ratio’. A ratio value set to 1 means that the packets will be completely mirrored. The sample packet can be assigned with a different set of actions than the original packet.
Added support of shared action in flow API.

Added shared action support to use single flow actions in multiple flow rules. An update to the shared action configuration alters the behavior of all flow rules using it.
- Added a new action: RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_SHARED to use shared action as a flow action.
- Added new flow APIs to create/update/destroy/query shared actions.
Added support to flow rules to allow private PMD items/actions.
- Flow rule verification has been updated to accept private PMD items and actions.
Added a generic API to offload tunneled traffic and restore missed packets.
- Added a new hardware independent helper to the flow API that offloads tunneled traffic and restores missed packets.
Updated the ethdev library to support hairpin between two ports.

New APIs have been introduced to support binding / unbinding of 2 ports in a hairpin configuration. The hairpin Tx part flow rules can be inserted explicitly. A new API has been added to get the hairpin peer ports list.
Updated the Amazon ena driver.

Updated the ena PMD with new features and improvements, including:
- Added network interface metrics which can be read using xstats.
Updated Broadcom bnxt driver.

Updated the Broadcom bnxt driver with new features and improvements, including:
- Added support for 200G PAM4 link speed.
- Added support for RSS hash level selection.
- Updated HWRM structures to 1.10.1.70 version.
- Added TRUFLOW support for Stingray devices.
- Added support for representors on MAIA cores of SR.
- Added support for VXLAN decap offload using rte_flow.
- Added support to indicate native rte_flow API thread safety.
Updated Cisco enic driver.
- Added support for VF representors with single-queue Tx/Rx and flow API
- Added support for egress PORT_ID action
- Added support for non-zero priorities for group 0 flows
- Added support for VXLAN decap combined with VLAN pop
Added hns3 FEC PMD, for supporting query and config FEC mode.

Added the FEC PMD which provides functions for querying FEC capabilities and current FEC mode from a device. A PMD for configuring FEC mode is also provided.
Updated the Intel iavf driver.

Updated the iavf PMD with new features and improvements, including:
- Added support for flexible descriptor metadata extraction.
- Added support for outer IP hash of GTPC and GTPU.
- Added support of AVX512 instructions in Rx and Tx path.
- Added support for up to 256 queue pairs per VF.
Updated Intel ixgbe driver.

Updated the Intel ixgbe driver to use write combining stores.
Updated Intel i40e driver.

Updated the Intel i40e driver to use write combining stores.
Updated Intel ice driver.
- Added support for write combining stores.
- Added ACL filter support for the Intel DCF.
Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.

Updated the Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
- Added vectorized Multi-Packet Rx Queue burst.
- Added support for 2 new miniCQE formats: Flow Tag and L3/L4 header.
- Added support for PMD level multiple-thread flow insertion.
- Added support for matching on fragmented/non-fragmented IPv4/IPv6 packets.
- Added support for QinQ packets matching.
- Added support for the new VLAN fields has_vlan in the Ethernet item and has_more_vlan in the VLAN item.
- Updated the supported timeout for Age action to the maximal value supported by the rte_flow API.
- Added support for Age action query.
- Added support for multi-ports hairpin.
- Allow unknown link speed.
Updated Mellanox mlx5 vDPA driver:
- Added support of vDPA VirtQ error handling.
Updated Solarflare network PMD.

Updated the Solarflare sfc_efx driver with changes including:
- Added SR-IOV PF support
- Added Alveo SN1000 SmartNICs (EF100 architecture) support including flow API transfer rules for switch HW offload
- Added ARMv8 support
- Claimed flow API native thread safety
Added Wangxun txgbe PMD.

Added a new PMD for Wangxun 10 Gigabit Ethernet NICs.

See the TXGBE Poll Mode Driver for more details.
Updated Virtio driver.
- Added support for Vhost-vDPA backend to the Virtio-user PMD.
- Changed default link speed to unknown.
- Added support for the 200G link speed.
Updated Memif PMD.
- Added support for abstract socket addresses.
- Changed default socket address type to abstract.
Added UDP/IPv4 GRO support for VxLAN and non-VxLAN packets.

For VxLAN packets, added inner UDP/IPv4 support. For non-VxLAN packets, added UDP/IPv4 support.
Extended the flow-perf application.
- Added support for user order instead of bit mask. Now the user can create any structure of rte_flow using the flow performance application with any order. Moreover the app also now starts to support inner items matching as well.
- Added header modify actions.
- Added flag action.
- Added raw encap/decap actions.
- Added VXLAN encap/decap actions.
- Added ICMP (code/type/identifier/sequence number) and ICMP6 (code/type) matching items.
- Added option to set port mask for insertion/deletion: --portmask=N where N represents the hexadecimal bitmask of the ports used.
Added raw data-path APIs for cryptodev library.

Added raw data-path APIs to Cryptodev to help accelerate external libraries or applications which need to avail of fast cryptodev enqueue/dequeue operations but which do not necessarily need to depend on mbufs and cryptodev operation mempools.
Updated the aesni_mb crypto PMD.
- Added support for intel-ipsec-mb version 0.55.
- Added support for AES-ECB 128, 192 and 256.
- Added support for ZUC-EEA3/EIA3 algorithms.
- Added support for SNOW3G-UEA2/UIA2 algorithms.
- Added support for KASUMI-F8/F9 algorithms.
- Added support for Chacha20-Poly1305.
- Added support for AES-256 CCM algorithm.
Updated the aesni_gcm crypto PMD.
- Added SGL support for AES-GMAC.
Added Broadcom BCMFS symmetric crypto PMD.

Added a symmetric crypto PMD for Broadcom FlexSparc crypto units. See Broadcom FlexSparc Crypto Poll Mode Driver guide for more details on this new PMD.
Updated NXP DPAA2_SEC crypto PMD.
- Added DES-CBC support for cipher_only, chain and ipsec protocol.
- Added support for non-HMAC auth algorithms (MD5, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512).
Updated Marvell NITROX symmetric crypto PMD.
- Added AES-GCM support.
- Added cipher only offload support.
Updated Marvell OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.
- Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD lookaside protocol offload for IPsec with IPv6 support.
Updated Intel QAT PMD.
- Added Raw Data-path APIs support.
- Added support for write combining stores.
Added Intel ACC100 bbdev PMD.

Added a new acc100 bbdev driver for the Intel® ACC100 accelerator also known as Mount Bryce. See the Intel(R) ACC100 5G/4G FEC Poll Mode Driver BBDEV guide for more details on this new driver.
Updated rte_security library to support SDAP.

rte_security_pdcp_xform in rte_security lib is updated to enable 5G NR processing of SDAP headers in PMDs.
Added Marvell OCTEON TX2 regex PMD.

Added a new PMD for the hardware regex offload block for OCTEON TX2 SoC.

See the OCTEON TX2 REE Regexdev Driver for more details.
Updated Software Eventdev driver.

Added performance tuning arguments to allow tuning the scheduler for better throughput in high core count use cases.
Added a new driver for the Intel Dynamic Load Balancer v1.0 device.

Added the new dlb eventdev driver for the Intel DLB V1.0 device. See the Driver for the Intel® Dynamic Load Balancer (DLB) eventdev guide for more details on this new driver.
Added a new driver for the Intel Dynamic Load Balancer v2.0 device.

Added the new dlb2 eventdev driver for the Intel DLB V2.0 device. See the Driver for the Intel® Dynamic Load Balancer (DLB2) eventdev guide for more details on this new driver.
Added Ice Lake (Gen4) support for Intel NTB.

Added NTB device support (4th generation) for the Intel Ice Lake platform.
Updated ioat rawdev driver.

The ioat rawdev driver has been updated and enhanced. Changes include:
- Added support for Intel® Data Streaming Accelerator hardware. For more information, see Introducing the Intel Data Streaming Accelerator (Intel DSA).
- Added support for the fill operation via the API rte_ioat_enqueue_fill(), where the hardware fills an area of memory with a repeating pattern.
- Added a per-device configuration flag to disable management of user-provided completion handles.
- Renamed the rte_ioat_do_copies() API to rte_ioat_perform_ops(), and renamed the rte_ioat_completed_copies() API to rte_ioat_completed_ops() to better reflect the APIs’ purposes, and remove the implication that they are limited to copy operations only. Note: The old API is still provided but marked as deprecated in the code.
- Added a new API rte_ioat_fence() to add a fence between operations. This API replaces the fence flag parameter in the rte_ioat_enqueue_copies() function, and is clearer as there is no ambiguity as to whether the flag should be set on the last operation before the fence or the first operation after it.
Updated the pipeline library for alignment with the P4 language.

Added a new Software Switch (SWX) pipeline type that provides more flexibility through APIs and feature alignment with the P4 language. Some enhancements are:
- The packet headers, meta-data, actions, tables and pipelines are dynamically defined instead of selected from a pre-defined set.
- The actions and the pipeline are defined with instructions.
- Extern objects and functions can be plugged into the pipeline.
- Transaction-oriented table updates.
Added new AVX512 specific classify algorithms for ACL library.
- Added new RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_AVX512X16 vector implementation, which can process up to 16 flows in parallel. Requires AVX512 support.
- Added new RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_AVX512X32 vector implementation, which can process up to 32 flows in parallel. Requires AVX512 support.
Added AVX512 lookup implementation for FIB.

Added a AVX512 lookup functions implementation into FIB and FIB6 libraries.
Added support to update subport bandwidth dynamically.
- Added new API rte_sched_port_subport_profile_add to add new subport bandwidth profiles to the subport profile table at runtime.
- Added support to update the subport rate dynamically.
Updated FIPS validation sample application.
- Added scatter gather support.
- Added NIST GCMVS complaint GMAC test method support.
Updated l3wfd-acl sample application.
- Added new optional parameter --eth-dest for the l3fwd-acl to allow the user to specify the destination mac address for each ethernet port used.
- Replaced --scalar command-line option with --alg=<value>, to allow the user to select the desired classify method.
Updated vhost sample application.

Added vhost asynchronous APIs support, which demonstrates how the application can leverage IOAT DMA channels with vhost asynchronous APIs. See the Vhost Sample Application for more details.

1.2. Removed Items

build: Support for the Make build system has been removed from DPDK. Meson is now the primary build system. Sample applications can still be built with Make standalone, using pkg-config.
vhost: Dequeue zero-copy support has been removed.
kernel: The module igb_uio has been moved to the git repository dpdk-kmods in a new directory linux/igb_uio.
Removed Python 2 support since it was sunsetted in January 2020. See Sunsetting Python 2
Removed TEP termination sample application.
Removed the deprecated dpdk-setup.sh script.

1.3. API Changes

build macros: The macros defining RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_* have been removed. The information provided by these macros is now available through standard compiler macros.
eal: Replaced the function rte_get_master_lcore() with rte_get_main_lcore(). The old function is deprecated.

The iterator for worker lcores is also changed: RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_SLAVE is replaced with RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_WORKER.
eal: The definitions related to including and excluding devices have been changed from blacklist/whitelist to block/allow list. There are compatibility macros and command line mapping to accept the old values but applications and scripts are strongly encouraged to migrate to the new names.
eal: The rte_logs struct and global symbol was made private and is no longer part of the API.
eal: Made the rte_dev_event structure private to the EAL as no public API used it.
eal: rte_cio_rmb() and rte_cio_wmb() were deprecated since 20.08 and are removed in this release.
mem: Removed the unioned field phys_addr from the structures rte_memseg and rte_memzone. The field iova remains from the old unions.
mempool: Removed the unioned fields phys_addr and physaddr from the structures rte_mempool_memhdr and rte_mempool_objhdr. The field iova remains from the old unions. The flag name MEMPOOL_F_NO_PHYS_CONTIG is removed, while the aliased flag MEMPOOL_F_NO_IOVA_CONTIG is kept.
mbuf: Removed the functions rte_mbuf_data_dma_addr* and the macros rte_pktmbuf_mtophys*. The same functionality is still available with the functions and macros having iova in their names instead of dma_addr or mtophys.
mbuf: Removed the unioned field buf_physaddr from rte_mbuf. The field buf_iova remains from the old union.
mbuf: Removed the unioned field refcnt_atomic from the structures rte_mbuf and rte_mbuf_ext_shared_info. The field refcnt remains from the old unions.
mbuf: Removed the unioned fields userdata and udata64 from the structure rte_mbuf. It is replaced with dynamic fields.
mbuf: Removed the field seqn from the structure rte_mbuf. It is replaced with dynamic fields.
mbuf: Removed the field timestamp from the structure rte_mbuf. It is replaced with the dynamic field RTE_MBUF_DYNFIELD_TIMESTAMP_NAME which was previously used only for Tx.
pci: Removed the rte_kernel_driver enum defined in rte_dev.h and replaced with a private enum in the PCI subsystem.
pci: Removed the PCI resources map API from the public API (pci_map_resource and pci_unmap_resource) and moved it to the PCI bus driver along with the PCI resources lists and associated structures (pci_map, pci_msix_table, mapped_pci_resource and mapped_pci_res_list).
ethdev: Removed the kdrv field in the ethdev rte_eth_dev_data structure as it gave no useful abstracted information to the applications.
ethdev: rte_eth_rx_descriptor_done() API has been deprecated.
ethdev: Renamed basic statistics per queue. An underscore is inserted between the queue number and the rest of the xstat name:
- rx_qN* -> rx_qN_*
- tx_qN* -> tx_qN_*
ethdev: Added capability to query age flow action.
ethdev: Changed rte_eth_dev_stop return value from void to int to provide a way to report various error conditions.
ethdev: Added int return type to rte_eth_dev_close().
ethdev: Renamed internal functions:
- _rte_eth_dev_callback_process() -> rte_eth_dev_callback_process()
- _rte_eth_dev_reset -> rte_eth_dev_internal_reset()
ethdev: Modified field type of base and nb_queue in struct rte_eth_dcb_tc_queue_mapping from uint8_t to uint16_t. As the data of uint8_t will be truncated when queue number in a TC is greater than 256.
ethdev: Removed the legacy filter API, including rte_eth_dev_filter_supported() and rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl().
ethdev: Removed the legacy L2 tunnel configuration API, including rte_eth_dev_l2_tunnel_eth_type_conf() and rte_eth_dev_l2_tunnel_offload_set()..
vhost: Moved vDPA APIs from experimental to stable.
vhost: Add a new function rte_vhost_crypto_driver_start to be called instead of rte_vhost_driver_start by crypto applications.
cryptodev: The structure rte_crypto_sym_vec is updated to support both cpu_crypto synchronous operations and asynchronous raw data-path APIs.
cryptodev: RTE_CRYPTO_AEAD_LIST_END from enum rte_crypto_aead_algorithm, RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_LIST_END from enum rte_crypto_cipher_algorithm and RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_LIST_END from enum rte_crypto_auth_algorithm are removed to avoid future ABI breakage while adding new algorithms.
scheduler: Renamed functions rte_cryptodev_scheduler_slave_attach, rte_cryptodev_scheduler_slave_detach and rte_cryptodev_scheduler_slaves_get to rte_cryptodev_scheduler_worker_attach, rte_cryptodev_scheduler_worker_detach and rte_cryptodev_scheduler_workers_get accordingly.
scheduler: Renamed the configuration value RTE_CRYPTODEV_SCHEDULER_MAX_NB_SLAVES to RTE_CRYPTODEV_SCHEDULER_MAX_NB_WORKERS.
security: The hfn_ovrd field in rte_security_pdcp_xform is changed from uint32_t to uint8_t so that a new field sdap_enabled can be added to support SDAP.
security: The API rte_security_session_create is updated to take two mempool objects: one for session and other for session private data. So the application need to create two mempools and get the size of session private data using API rte_security_session_get_size for private session mempool.
ipsec: RTE_SATP_LOG2_NUM has been dropped from enum and subsequently moved rte_ipsec lib from experimental to stable.
baseband/fpga_lte_fec: Renamed function fpga_lte_fec_configure to rte_fpga_lte_fec_configure and structure fpga_lte_fec_conf to rte_fpga_lte_fec_conf.
baseband/fpga_5gnr_fec: Renamed function fpga_5gnr_fec_configure to rte_fpga_5gnr_fec_configure and structure fpga_5gnr_fec_conf to rte_fpga_5gnr_fec_conf.
rawdev: Added a structure size parameter to the functions rte_rawdev_queue_setup(), rte_rawdev_queue_conf_get(), rte_rawdev_info_get() and rte_rawdev_configure(), allowing limited driver type-checking and ABI compatibility.
rawdev: Changed the return type of the function rte_dev_info_get() and the function rte_rawdev_queue_conf_get() from void to int allowing the return of error codes from drivers.
rawdev: The running of a drivers selftest() function can now be done using the rawdev_autotest command in the dpdk-test binary. This command now calls the self-test function for each rawdev found on the system, and does not require a specific command per device type. Following this change, the ioat_rawdev_autotest command has been removed as no longer needed.
raw/ioat: As noted above, the rte_ioat_do_copies() and rte_ioat_completed_copies() functions have been renamed to rte_ioat_perform_ops() and rte_ioat_completed_ops() respectively.
stack: the experimental tag has been dropped from the stack library, and its interfaces are considered stable as of DPDK 20.11.
bpf: RTE_BPF_XTYPE_NUM has been dropped from rte_bpf_xtype.
gso: Changed rte_gso_segment behaviour and return value:
- pkt is not saved to pkts_out[0] if not GSOed.
- Return 0 instead of 1 for the above case.
- pkt is not freed, no matter whether it is GSOed, leaving to the caller.
acl: RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_NUM enum value has been removed. This enum value was not used inside DPDK, while it prevented the addition of new classify algorithms without causing an ABI breakage.
sched: Added subport_profile_id as an argument to function rte_sched_subport_config.
sched: Removed tb_rate, tc_rate, tc_period and tb_size from struct rte_sched_subport_params.

1.4. ABI Changes

eal: Removed the unimplemented function rte_dump_registers().
ethdev changes
- The following device operation function pointers moved from struct eth_dev_ops to struct rte_eth_dev:
  - eth_rx_queue_count_t rx_queue_count;
  - eth_rx_descriptor_done_t rx_descriptor_done;
  - eth_rx_descriptor_status_t rx_descriptor_status;
  - eth_tx_descriptor_status_t tx_descriptor_status;
- struct eth_dev_ops is no longer accessible by applications, which was already an internal data structure.
- ethdev internal functions are marked with __rte_internal tag.
- Added extensions’ attributes to struct rte_flow_item_ipv6. A set of additional values added to struct, indicating the existence of every defined extension header type. Applications should use the new values for identification of existing extensions in the packet header.
- Added fields rx_seg and rx_nseg to rte_eth_rxconf structure to provide extended description of the receiving buffer.
- struct rte_eth_hairpin_conf has two new members:
  - uint32_t tx_explicit:1;
  - uint32_t manual_bind:1;
- Added new field has_vlan to structure rte_flow_item_eth, indicating that packet header contains at least one VLAN.
- Added new field has_more_vlan to the structure rte_flow_item_vlan, indicating that packet header contains at least one more VLAN, after this VLAN.
eventdev: The following structures are modified to support DLB/DLB2 PMDs and future extensions:
- rte_event_dev_info
- rte_event_dev_config
- rte_event_port_conf
sched: Added new fields to struct rte_sched_subport_port_params.
lpm: Removed fields other than tbl24 and tbl8 from the struct rte_lpm. The removed fields were made internal.

1.5. Tested Platforms

Intel® platforms with Intel® NICs combinations
- CPU
  - Intel® Atom™ CPU C3758 @ 2.20GHz
  - Intel® Atom™ CPU C3858 @ 2.00GHz
  - Intel® Atom™ CPU C3958 @ 2.00GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU D-1541 @ 2.10GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU D-1553N @ 2.30GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2680 0 @ 2.70GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2699 v3 @ 2.30GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® Gold 5218N CPU @ 2.30GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® Gold 6139 CPU @ 2.30GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® Gold 6252N CPU @ 2.30GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8180 CPU @ 2.50GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8280M CPU @ 2.70GHz
- OS:
  - CentOS 8.2
  - Fedora 33
  - FreeBSD 12.1
  - OpenWRT 19.07.3
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 8.2
  - Suse 15 SP1
  - Ubuntu 18.04
  - Ubuntu 20.04
  - Ubuntu 20.10
- NICs:
  - Intel® Ethernet Controller E810-C for SFP (4x25G）
    - Firmware version: 2.30 0x80004dcf 1.2839.0
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1593 / 8086:1889
    - Driver version: 1.3.0 (ice)
    - OS Default DDP: 1.3.20.0
    - COMMS DDP: 1.3.24.0
  - Intel® Ethernet Controller E810-C for QSFP (2x100G）
    - Firmware version: 2.30 0x80004dd0 1.2839.0
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1592 / 8086:1889
    - Driver version: 1.3.0 (ice)
    - OS Default DDP: 1.3.20.0
    - COMMS DDP: 1.3.24.0
  - Intel® 82599ES 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
    - Firmware version: 0x61bf0001
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:10fb / 8086:10ed
    - Driver version: 5.7.1 (ixgbe)
  - Intel® Corporation Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T
    - Firmware version: 0x800003e7
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:15ad / 8086:15a8
    - Driver version: 5.1.0-k (ixgbe)
  - Intel® Corporation Ethernet Controller 10G X550T
    - Firmware version: 0x80000482
    - Device id (pf): 8086:1563
    - Driver version: 5.7.1 (ixgbe)
  - Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA4 (4x10G)
    - Firmware version: 8.00 0x80008b82 1.2766.0
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1572 / 8086:154c
    - Driver version: 2.13.10 (i40e)
  - Intel® Corporation Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GbE SFP+ (4x10G)
    - Firmware version: 5.00 0x800023c3 1.2766.0
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:37d0 / 8086:37cd
    - Driver version: 2.13.10 (i40e)
  - Intel® Corporation Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T (2x10G)
    - Firmware version: 4.10 0x80001a7a
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:37d2 / 8086:37cd
    - Driver version: 2.13.10 (i40e)
  - Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XXV710-DA2 (2x25G)
    - Firmware version: 8.00 0x80008c1a 1.2766.0
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:158b / 8086:154c
    - Driver version: 2.13.10 (i40e)
  - Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710-QDA2 (2X40G)
    - Firmware version: 8.00 0x80008b82 1.2766.0
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1583 / 8086:154c
    - Driver version: 2.13.10 (i40e)
  - Intel® Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection
    - Firmware version: 1.63, 0x80000cbc
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1521 / 8086:1520
    - Driver version: 5.4.0-k (igb)
  - Intel® Corporation I210 Gigabit Network Connection
    - Firmware version: 3.25, 0x800006eb
    - Device id (pf): 8086:1533
    - Driver version: 5.4.0-k (igb)
  - Intel® Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2
    - Firmware version: 0x800005f9
    - Device id (pf): 8086:1528
    - Driver version: 5.1.0-k (ixgbe)
  - Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-T2L
    - Firmware version: 8.00 0x80008d10 1.2766.0
    - Device id (pf): 8086:15ff
    - Driver version: 2.13.10 (i40e)
Intel® platforms with Mellanox® NICs combinations
- CPU:
  - Intel® Xeon® Gold 6154 CPU @ 3.00GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2697A v4 @ 2.60GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2640 @ 2.50GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz
- OS:
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.2 (Ootpa)
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.8 (Maipo)
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6 (Maipo)
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5 (Maipo)
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo)
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo)
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (Maipo)
  - Ubuntu 20.04
  - Ubuntu 18.04
  - Ubuntu 16.04
  - SUSE Enterprise Linux 15 SP2
  - SUSE Enterprise Linux 12 SP4
- OFED:
  - MLNX_OFED 5.2-0.3.3.0 and above
  - MLNX_OFED 5.1-2.5.8.0
- upstream kernel:
  - Linux 5.10.0-rc2 and above
- rdma-core:
  - rdma-core-31.0-1 and above
- NICs:
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-3 Pro 40G MCX354A-FCC_Ax (2x40G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
    - Device ID: 15b3:1007
    - Firmware version: 2.42.5000
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-3 Pro 40G MCX354A-FCCT (2x40G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
    - Device ID: 15b3:1007
    - Firmware version: 2.42.5000
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-4 Lx 25G MCX4121A-ACAT (2x25G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
    - Device ID: 15b3:1015
    - Firmware version: 14.29.0476 and above
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-4 Lx 50G MCX4131A-GCAT (1x50G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
    - Device ID: 15b3:1015
    - Firmware version: 14.29.0476 and above
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-5 100G MCX516A-CCAT (2x100G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
    - Device ID: 15b3:1017
    - Firmware version: 16.29.0476 and above
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-5 100G MCX556A-ECAT (2x100G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
    - Device ID: 15b3:1017
    - Firmware version: 16.29.0476 and above
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-5 100G MCX556A-EDAT (2x100G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
    - Device ID: 15b3:1017
    - Firmware version: 16.29.0476 and above
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-5 Ex EN 100G MCX516A-CDAT (2x100G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
    - Device ID: 15b3:1019
    - Firmware version: 16.29.0476 and above
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-6 Dx EN 100G MCX623106AN-CDAT (2x100G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
    - Device ID: 15b3:101d
    - Firmware version: 22.29.0476 and above
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-6 Lx EN 25G MCX631102AN-ADAT (2x25G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x8
    - Device ID: 15b3:101f
    - Firmware version: 26.29.0470 and above
Mellanox® BlueField® SmartNIC
- Mellanox® BlueField® 2 SmartNIC MT41686 - MBF2H332A-AEEOT (2x25G)
  - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
  - Device ID: 15b3:a2d2
  - Firmware version: 24.29.0476 and above
- Embedded software:
  - CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (AltArch)
  - MLNX_OFED 5.2-0.3.2 and above
  - DPDK application running on Arm cores
Intel® platforms with Broadcom® NICs combinations
- CPU:
  - Intel® Xeon® Gold 6154 CPU @ 3.00GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2667 v3 @ 3.20GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® Gold 6142 CPU @ 2.60GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® Silver 4110 CPU @ 2.10GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E3-1270 v3 @ 3.50GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® Gold 6134M CPU @ 3.20GHz
- OS:
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 8.1
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5
  - Ubuntu 16.04
  - Centos 8.1
  - Centos 7.8
  - Centos 7.7
- upstream kernel:
  - Linux 5.3.4
- NICs:
  - Broadcom® NetXtreme-E® Series P225p (2x25G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
    - Firmware version: 214.4.114.0 and above
  - Broadcom® NetXtreme-E® Series P425p (4x25G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
    - Firmware version: 216.4.259.0 and above
  - Broadcom® NetXtreme-E® Series P2100G (2x100G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
    - Firmware version: 216.1.259.0 and above
  - Broadcom® NetXtreme-E® Series P425p (4x25G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
    - Firmware version: 216.1.259.0 and above
  - Broadcom® NetXtreme-E® Series P2100G (2x100G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
    - Firmware version: 216.1.259.0 and above
Broadcom® NetXtreme-S® Series SmartNIC
- Broadcom® NetXtreme-S® Series PS225-H16 SmartNIC (2x25G)
  - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
  - Firmware version: 217.0.59.0, 218.1.63.0
- Embedded software:
  - Broadcom Yocto Linux
  - Kernel version: 4.14.174
  - DPDK application running on 8 Arm Cortex-A72 cores

1.6. 20.11.1 Release Notes

1.6.1. 20.11.1 Fixes

app/crypto-perf: fix CSV output format
app/crypto-perf: fix latency CSV output
app/crypto-perf: fix spelling in output
app/crypto-perf: remove always true condition
app/eventdev: adjust event count order for pipeline test
app/eventdev: fix SMP barrier in performance test
app/eventdev: remove redundant enqueue in burst Tx
app: fix build with extra include paths
app/flow-perf: simplify objects initialization
app/procinfo: fix check on xstats-ids
app/procinfo: fix _filters stats reporting
app/procinfo: fix security context info
app/procinfo: remove useless assignment
app/procinfo: remove useless memset
app/testpmd: avoid exit without terminal restore
app/testpmd: fix help of metering commands
app/testpmd: fix IP checksum calculation
app/testpmd: fix key for RSS flow rule
app/testpmd: fix max Rx packet length for VLAN packets
app/testpmd: fix packets dump overlapping
app/testpmd: fix queue reconfig request on Rx split update
app/testpmd: fix queue stats mapping configuration
app/testpmd: fix setting maximum packet length
app/testpmd: fix start index for showing FEC array
app/testpmd: release flows left before port stop
app/testpmd: support shared age action query
bitrate: fix missing header include
build: fix linker flags on Windows
build: fix plugin load on static build
build: force pkg-config for dependency detection
build: provide suitable error for “both” libraries option
bus/pci: fix build with MinGW-w64 8
bus/pci: fix build with Windows SDK >= 10.0.20253
bus/pci: fix hardware ID limit on Windows
bus/pci: ignore missing NUMA node on Windows
common/mlx5: fix completion queue entry size configuration
common/mlx5: fix pointer cast on Windows
common/mlx5: fix storing synced MAC to internal table
common/octeontx2: fix build with SVE
common/sfc_efx/base: apply mask to value on match field set
common/sfc_efx/base: check for MAE privilege
common/sfc_efx/base: enhance field ID check in field set API
common/sfc_efx/base: fix MAE match spec class comparison API
common/sfc_efx/base: fix MAE match spec validation helper
common/sfc_efx/base: fix MPORT related byte order handling
common/sfc_efx/base: fix signed/unsigned mismatch warnings
common/sfc_efx/base: remove warnings about inline specifiers
common/sfc_efx/base: support alternative MAE match fields
common/sfc_efx/base: update MCDI headers for MAE privilege
crypto/dpaa2_sec: fix memory allocation check
crypto/qat: fix access to uninitialized variable
crypto/qat: fix digest in buffer
doc: add FEC to NIC features
doc: add vtune profiling config to prog guide
doc: fix figure numbering in graph guide
doc: fix mark action zero value in mlx5 guide
doc: fix product link in hns3 guide
doc: fix QinQ flow rules in testpmd guide
doc: fix RSS flow description in i40e guide
doc: fix some statements for ice vector PMD
doc: fix supported feature table in mlx5 guide
doc: update flow mark action in mlx5 guide
eal/arm: fix debug build with gcc for 128-bit atomics
eal: fix automatic loading of drivers as shared libs
eal: fix internal ABI tag with clang
eal: fix MCS lock header include
eal: fix reciprocal header include
eal/linux: fix handling of error events from epoll
eal/windows: fix build with MinGW-w64 8
eal/windows: fix C++ compatibility
eal/windows: fix debug build with MinGW
eal/windows: fix vfprintf warning with clang
ethdev: avoid blocking telemetry for link status
ethdev: fix close failure handling
ethdev: fix max Rx packet length check
ethdev: fix missing header include
eventdev: fix a return value comment
event/dlb: fix accessing uninitialized variables
examples/eventdev: add info output for main core
examples/eventdev: check CPU core enabling
examples/eventdev: move ethdev stop to the end
examples/l3fwd: remove limitation on Tx queue count
examples/pipeline: fix CLI parsing crash
examples/pipeline: fix VXLAN script permission
fbarray: fix overlap check
fib: fix missing header includes
ip_frag: remove padding length of fragment
ipsec: fix missing header include
lib: fix doxygen for parameters of function pointers
license: add licenses for exception cases
lpm: fix vector IPv4 lookup
mbuf: add C++ include guard for dynamic fields header
mbuf: fix missing header include
mbuf: remove unneeded atomic generic header include
mempool: fix panic on dump or audit
metrics: fix variable declaration in header
net/af_xdp: remove useless assignment
net/avp: remove always true condition
net/axgbe: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/bnxt: disable end of packet padding for Rx
net/bnxt: fix cleanup on mutex init failure
net/bnxt: fix doorbell write ordering
net/bnxt: fix error handling in device start
net/bnxt: fix fallback mbuf allocation logic
net/bnxt: fix format specifier for unsigned int
net/bnxt: fix freeing mbuf
net/bnxt: fix FW version log
net/bnxt: fix lock init and destroy
net/bnxt: fix max rings computation
net/bnxt: fix memory leak when mapping fails
net/bnxt: fix null termination of Rx mbuf chain
net/bnxt: fix outer UDP checksum Rx offload capability
net/bnxt: fix packet type index calculation
net/bnxt: fix PF resource query
net/bnxt: fix Rx completion ring size calculation
net/bnxt: fix Rx rings in RSS redirection table
net/bnxt: fix VNIC config on Rx queue stop
net/bnxt: fix VNIC RSS configure function
net/bnxt: limit Rx representor packets per poll
net/bnxt: make offload flags mapping per-ring
net/bnxt: propagate FW command failure to application
net/bnxt: refactor init/uninit
net/bnxt: release HWRM lock in error
net/bnxt: remove redundant return
net/bnxt: set correct checksum status in mbuf
net/bonding: fix PCI address comparison on non-PCI ports
net/bonding: fix port id validity check on parsing
net/bonding: remove local variable shadowing outer one
net/cxgbe: accept VLAN flow items without ethertype
net/cxgbe: fix jumbo frame flag condition
net/dpaa2: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/dpaa: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/e1000: fix flow control mode setting
net/e1000: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/ena: fix Tx doorbell statistics
net/ena: fix Tx SQ free space assessment
net/ena: flush Rx buffers memory pool cache
net/ena: prevent double doorbell
net/ena: validate Rx req ID upon acquiring descriptor
net/enetc: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/enic: fix filter log message
net/enic: fix filter type used for flow API
net: fix missing header include
net/hinic: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/hinic: restore vectorised code
net/hns3: adjust format specifier for enum
net/hns3: adjust some comments
net/hns3: fix build with SVE
net/hns3: fix crash with multi-process
net/hns3: fix data overwriting during register dump
net/hns3: fix dump register out of range
net/hns3: fix error code in xstats
net/hns3: fix FEC state query
net/hns3: fix firmware exceptions by concurrent commands
net/hns3: fix flow director rule residue on malloc failure
net/hns3: fix interception with flow director
net/hns3: fix interrupt resources in Rx interrupt mode
net/hns3: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/hns3: fix link status change from firmware
net/hns3: fix memory leak on secondary process exit
net/hns3: fix query order of link status and link info
net/hns3: fix register length when dumping registers
net/hns3: fix RSS indirection table size
net/hns3: fix Rx/Tx errors stats
net/hns3: fix stats flip overflow
net/hns3: fix VF query link status in dev init
net/hns3: fix VF reset on mailbox failure
net/hns3: fix xstats with id and names
net/hns3: remove MPLS from supported flow items
net/hns3: use new opcode for clearing hardware resource
net/hns3: validate requested maximum Rx frame length
net/i40e: add null input checks
net/i40e: fix flex payload rule conflict
net/i40e: fix global register recovery
net/i40e: fix jumbo frame flag condition
net/i40e: fix L4 checksum flag
net/i40e: fix returned code for RSS hardware failure
net/i40e: fix Rx bytes statistics
net/i40e: fix stats counters
net/i40e: fix VLAN stripping in VF
net/i40e: fix X722 for 802.1ad frames ability
net/iavf: fix conflicting RSS combination rules
net/iavf: fix GTPU UL and DL support for flow director
net/iavf: fix jumbo frame flag condition
net/iavf: fix memory leak in large VF
net/iavf: fix queue pairs configuration
net/iavf: fix symmetric flow rule creation
net/iavf: fix vector mapping with queue
net/ice/base: fix memory handling
net/ice/base: fix null pointer dereference
net/ice/base: fix tunnel destroy
net/ice: check Rx queue number on RSS init
net/ice: disable IPv4 checksum offload in vector Tx
net/ice: drain out DCF AdminQ command queue
net/ice: enlarge Rx queue rearm threshold to 64
net/ice: fix jumbo frame flag condition
net/ice: fix outer checksum flags
net/ice: fix outer UDP Tx checksum offload
net/ice: fix RSS lookup table initialization
net/ionic: allow separate L3 and L4 checksum offload
net/ionic: do minor logging fixups
net/ionic: fix address handling in Tx
net/ionic: fix link speed and autonegotiation
net/ionic: fix up function attribute tags
net/ipn3ke: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/ixgbe: detect failed VF MTU set
net/ixgbe: disable NFS filtering
net/ixgbe: fix configuration of max frame size
net/ixgbe: fix flex bytes flow director rule
net/ixgbe: fix jumbo frame flag condition
net/ixgbe: fix UDP zero checksum on x86
net/liquidio: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/mlx4: fix device detach
net/mlx4: fix handling of probing failure
net/mlx4: fix port attach in secondary process
net/mlx5: check FW miniCQE format capabilities
net/mlx5: fix buffer split offload advertising
net/mlx5: fix comparison sign in flow engine
net/mlx5: fix constant array size
net/mlx5: fix count actions query in sample flow
net/mlx5: fix counter and age flow action validation
net/mlx5: fix crash on secondary process port close
net/mlx5: fix device name size on Windows
net/mlx5: fix Direct Verbs flow descriptor allocation
net/mlx5: fix drop action in tunnel offload mode
net/mlx5: fix flow action destroy wrapper
net/mlx5: fix flow operation wrapper per OS
net/mlx5: fix flow split combined with age action
net/mlx5: fix flow split combined with counter
net/mlx5: fix flow tag decompression
net/mlx5: fix freeing packet pacing
net/mlx5: fix hairpin flow split decision
net/mlx5: fix leak on ASO SQ creation failure
net/mlx5: fix leak on Rx queue creation failure
net/mlx5: fix leak on Tx queue creation failure
net/mlx5: fix mark action in active tunnel offload
net/mlx5: fix mbuf freeing in vectorized MPRQ
net/mlx5: fix miniCQE configuration for Verbs
net/mlx5: fix multi-process port ID
net/mlx5: fix port attach in secondary process
net/mlx5: fix shared age action validation
net/mlx5: fix shared RSS and mark actions combination
net/mlx5: fix shared RSS capability check
net/mlx5: fix shared RSS translation and cleanup
net/mlx5: fix tunnel rules validation on VF representor
net/mlx5: fix Tx queue size created with DevX
net/mlx5: fix unnecessary checking for RSS action
net/mlx5: fix Verbs memory allocation callback
net/mlx5: fix VXLAN decap on non-VXLAN flow
net/mlx5: fix wire vport hint
net/mlx5: refuse empty VLAN in flow pattern
net/mlx5: remove CQE padding device argument
net/mlx5: unify operations for all OS
net/mlx5: validate hash Rx queue pointer
net/mvneta: check allocation in Rx queue flush
net/mvpp2: fix frame size checking
net/mvpp2: fix stack corruption
net/mvpp2: remove CRC length from MRU validation
net/mvpp2: remove debug log on fast-path
net/mvpp2: remove VLAN flush
net/netvsc: ignore unsupported packet on sync command
net/nfp: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/nfp: read chip model from PluDevice register
net/octeontx2: fix corruption in segments list
net/octeontx2: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU
net/octeontx2: fix PF flow action for Tx
net/octeontx: fix build with SVE
net/octeontx: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/octeontx: fix max Rx packet length
net/pcap: fix byte stats for drop Tx
net/pcap: fix infinite Rx with large files
net/pcap: remove local variable shadowing outer one
net/qede: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/qede: fix promiscuous enable
net/sfc: fix generic byte statistics to exclude FCS bytes
net/sfc: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/sfc: fix TSO and checksum offloads for EF10
net/thunderx: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/virtio: add missing backend features negotiation
net/virtio: fix getting old status on reconnect
net/virtio: fix memory init with vDPA backend
net/virtio-user: fix protocol features advertising
net/virtio-user: fix run closing stdin and close callfd
node: fix missing header include
pipeline: fix missing header includes
power: clean up includes
power: create guest channel public header file
power: export guest channel header file
power: fix missing header includes
power: make channel message functions public
power: rename constants
power: rename public structs
regex/mlx5: fix memory rule alignment
regex/mlx5: fix number of supported queues
regex/mlx5: fix support for group id
regex/octeontx2: fix PCI table overflow
rib: fix insertion in some cases
rib: fix missing header include
rib: fix missing header includes
service: propagate init error in EAL
table: fix missing header include
telemetry: fix missing header include
test/distributor: fix return buffer queue overload
test/event_crypto: set cipher operation in transform
test: fix buffer overflow in Tx burst
test: fix terminal settings on exit
test/ipsec: fix result code for not supported
test/mcslock: remove unneeded per lcore copy
test/ring: reduce duration of performance tests
test/rwlock: fix spelling and missing whitespace
usertools: fix binding built-in kernel driver
vdpa/mlx5: fix configuration mutex cleanup
version: 20.11.1-rc1
vhost: fix missing header includes
vhost: fix packed ring dequeue offloading
vhost: fix vid allocation race

1.6.2. 20.11.1 Validation

Canonical(R) Testing
- Build tests on Ubuntu 21.04
- OVS-DPDK tests on x86_64
  
  1.0.0 (07:05:12): phys (BM) tests
  
  1.1.0 (07:05:12): initialize environment
  
  1.1.1 (07:09:32): testpmd => Pass
  
  1.1.2 (07:11:12): check testpmd output => Pass
  
  2.0.0 (07:11:12): prep virtual test environment
  
  1.0.0 (07:14:14): virt tests
  
  1.1.0 (07:14:14): initialize environment
  
  3.0.0 (07:15:30): performance tests
  
  3.1.0 (07:15:30): prep benchmarks
  
  3.2.0 (07:15:51): performance tests
  
  3.2.1 (07:16:01): test guest-openvswitch for OVS-5CPU => Pass
  
  3.2.2 (07:35:44): test guest-dpdk-vhost-user-client-multiq for
  
  OVSDPDK-VUC => Pass
  
  4.0.0 (07:57:11): VUC endurance checks
  
  4.1.0 (07:57:11): prep VUC endurance tests
  
  4.1.1 (08:12:38): start stop guests (client) => Pass
  
  4.1.2 (09:25:59): add/remove ports (client) => Pass
  
  4.2.0 (09:35:04): Final cleanup
Red Hat(R) Testing
- Platform
  RHEL 8
  
  Kernel 4.18
  
  Qemu 5.2
  
  X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)
- Functionality
  Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size)
  
  Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size)
  
  Guest with device assignment(VF) throughput testing
  
  PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing
  
  PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing
  
  PVP vhost-user 1Q * cross numa node throughput testing
  
  Guest with vhost-user 2 queues throughput testing
  
  vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: qemu reconnect
  
  vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: ovs reconnect
  
  PVP 1Q live migration testing
  
  PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M)
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing
  
  Host PF + DPDK testing
  
  Host VF + DPDK testing
Broadcom(R) Testing
- Functionality
  Tx/Rx
  
  Link status
  
  RSS
  
  TSO
  
  VLAN filtering
  
  MAC filtering
  
  statistics
  
  Checksum offload
  
  MTU
  
  Promiscuous mode
- Platform
  BCM57414 NetXtreme-E 10Gb/25Gb Ethernet Controller, Firmware: 218.1.186.0
  
  BCM57508 NetXtreme-E 10Gb/25Gb/40Gb/50Gb/100Gb/200Gb Ethernet, Firmware : 219.0.0.74
Intel(R) Testing
- Basic Intel(R) NIC(ixgbe, i40e and ice) testing
  
  PF (i40e)
  
  PF (ixgbe)
  
  PF (ice)
  
  VF (i40e)
  
  VF (ixgbe)
  
  VF (ice)
  
  Compile Testing
  
  Intel NIC single core/NIC performance
  
  Power and IPsec
- Basic cryptodev and virtio testing
  vhost/virtio basic loopback, PVP and performance test
  
  cryptodev Function/Performance
Intel(R) Testing with Open vSwitch
- OVS testing with OVS 2.15.0
  ICE Device
  
  Jumbo frames, RSS, Kernel forwarding
  
  i40e Device
  
  Basic performance (RFC2544 P2P, PVP_CONT, RFC2544 PVP_TPUT, RFC2544 PVVP_TPUT, PVPV), Jumbo frames, RSS
  
  Niantic Device
  
  Basic performance tests (RFC2544 P2P, PVP_CONT, RFC2544 PVP_TPUT, RFC2544 PVVP_TPUT, PVPV), Jumbo frames, RSS
  
  vhost
  
  Port addition/deletion, Jumbo frames, RSS
Nvidia(R) Testing
- Basic functionality with testpmd
  Tx/Rx
  
  xstats
  
  Timestamps
  
  Link status
  
  RTE flow and flow_director
  
  RSS
  
  VLAN stripping and insertion
  
  Checksum/TSO
  
  ptype
  
  link_status_interrupt example application
  
  l3fwd-power example application
  
  Multi-process example applications
- Build tests
  Ubuntu 20.04.1 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-2.2.0.0.
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.1 with rdma-core master (7f2d460).
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.1 with rdma-core v28.0.
  
  Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core v17.1.
  
  Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core master (7f2d460) (i386).
  
  Ubuntu 16.04.7 with rdma-core v22.7.
  
  Fedora 32 with rdma-core v33.0.
  
  CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (7f2d460).
  
  CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-2.2.0.0.
  
  CentOS 8 8.3.2011 with rdma-core master (7f2d460).
  
  openSUSE Leap 15.2 with rdma-core v27.1.
- ConnectX-5
  RHEL 7.4
  
  Driver MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-2.2.0.0
  
  Kernel: 5.12.0-rc1 / Driver: rdma-core 34.0
  
  fw 14.29.2002
- ConnectX-4 Lx
  RHEL 7.4
  
  Driver MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-2.2.0.0
  
  Kernel: 5.12.0-rc1 / Driver: rdma-core 34.0
  
  fw 16.29.2002

1.6.3. 20.11.1 Known Issues

ICE
- creating 512 acl rules after creating a full mask switch rule fails.
vhost/virtio
- udp-fragmentation-offload cannot be setup on Ubuntu 19.10 VMs. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207075
- vm2vm virtio-net connectivity between two vms randomly fails due to lost connection after vhost reconnect.

1.7. 20.11.2 Release Notes

1.7.1. 20.11.2 Fixes

acl: fix build with GCC 11
app/bbdev: check memory allocation
app/bbdev: fix HARQ error messages
app/crypto-perf: check memory allocation
app/eventdev: fix lcore parsing skipping last core
app/eventdev: fix overflow in lcore list parsing
app/eventdev: fix timeout accuracy
app: fix exit messages
app/flow-perf: fix encap/decap actions
app/regex: fix usage text
app/testpmd: check MAC address query
app/testpmd: fix bitmap of link speeds when force speed
app/testpmd: fix build with musl
app/testpmd: fix DCB forwarding configuration
app/testpmd: fix DCB re-configuration
app/testpmd: fix division by zero on socket memory dump
app/testpmd: fix forward lcores number for DCB
app/testpmd: fix max queue number for Tx offloads
app/testpmd: fix NVGRE encap configuration
app/testpmd: fix segment number check
app/testpmd: fix tunnel offload flows cleanup
app/testpmd: fix Tx/Rx descriptor query error log
app/testpmd: fix usage text
app/testpmd: remove unnecessary UDP tunnel check
app/testpmd: verify DCB config during forward config
bpf: fix JSLT validation
build: detect execinfo library on Linux
build: exclude meson files from examples installation
build: fix drivers selection without Python
build: remove redundant _GNU_SOURCE definitions
buildtools: fix all drivers disabled on Windows
buildtools: fix build with busybox
bus/dpaa: fix 64-bit arch detection
bus/dpaa: fix build with musl
bus/dpaa: fix statistics reading
bus/fslmc: fix random portal hangs with qbman 5.0
bus/fslmc: remove unused debug macro
bus/pci: fix Windows kernel driver categories
bus/pci: skip probing some Windows NDIS devices
bus/pci: support I/O port operations with musl
ci: catch coredumps
ci: enable v21 ABI checks
ci: fix package installation in GitHub Actions
ci: hook to GitHub Actions
ci: ignore APT update failure in GitHub Actions
common/dpaax/caamflib: fix build with musl
common/dpaax: fix possible null pointer access
common/iavf: fix duplicated offload bit
common/mlx5: add DevX commands for queue counters
common/mlx5: add DevX command to query WQ
common/mlx5: add timestamp format support to DevX
common/mlx5: fix DevX read output buffer size
common/mlx5/linux: add glue function to query WQ
common/qat: increase IM buffer size for GEN3
common/sfc_efx/base: add missing MCDI response length checks
common/sfc_efx/base: fix dereferencing null pointer
common/sfc_efx/base: fix indication of MAE encap support
common/sfc_efx/base: limit reported MCDI response length
common/sfc_efx: remove GENEVE from supported tunnels
compress/qat: enable compression on GEN3
config/ppc: reduce number of cores and NUMA nodes
crypto/dpaa2_sec: fix close and uninit functions
crypto/dpaa_sec: affine the thread portal affinity
crypto/octeontx: fix session-less mode
crypto/qat: fix null authentication request
crypto/qat: fix offset for out-of-place scatter-gather
crypto/zuc: fix build with GCC 11
devtools: fix orphan symbols check with busybox
doc: fix build with Sphinx 4
doc: fix formatting in testpmd guide
doc: fix HiSilicon copyright syntax
doc: fix matching versions in ice guide
doc: fix multiport syntax in nfp guide
doc: fix names of UIO drivers
doc: fix runtime options in DLB2 guide
doc: fix sphinx rtd theme import in GHA
doc: remove PDF requirements
doc: update recommended versions for i40e
drivers: fix log level after loading
drivers/net: fix FW version query
eal: add C++ include guard for reciprocal header
eal/arm64: fix platform register bit
eal: fix build with musl
eal: fix comment of OS-specific header files
eal: fix evaluation of log level option
eal: fix hang in control thread creation
eal: fix leak in shared lib mode detection
eal: fix memory mapping on 32-bit target
eal: fix race in control thread creation
eal: fix service core list parsing
eal/windows: add missing SPDX license tag
eal/windows: fix default thread priority
eal/windows: fix return codes of pthread shim layer
ethdev: add missing buses in device iterator
ethdev: update flow item GTP QFI definition
ethdev: validate input in EEPROM info
ethdev: validate input in module EEPROM dump
ethdev: validate input in register info
eventdev: fix case to initiate crypto adapter service
eventdev: fix memory leakage on thread creation failure
eventdev: remove redundant thread name setting
event/dlb2: remove references to deferred scheduling
event/dlb: fix header includes for musl
event/dpaa2: remove unused macros
event/octeontx2: configure crypto adapter xaq pool
event/octeontx2: fix crypto adapter queue pair operations
event/octeontx2: fix device reconfigure for single slot
event/octeontx2: fix XAQ pool reconfigure
examples: add eal cleanup to examples
examples/bbdev: fix header include for musl
examples/ethtool: remove unused parsing
examples: fix pkg-config override
examples/flow_classify: fix NUMA check of port and core
examples/l2fwd-cat: fix NUMA check of port and core
examples/l2fwd-crypto: fix packet length while decryption
examples/l2fwd-crypto: skip masked devices
examples/l3fwd: fix LPM IPv6 subnets
examples/l3fwd-power: fix empty poll thresholds
examples/packet_ordering: fix port configuration
examples/ptpclient: remove wrong comment
examples/rxtx_callbacks: fix port ID format specifier
examples/skeleton: fix NUMA check of port and core
examples/timer: fix time interval
examples/vhost: check memory table query
examples/vhost_crypto: remove unused short option
fbarray: fix log message on truncation error
ipc: check malloc sync reply result
ipc: use monotonic clock
ip_frag: fix fragmenting IPv4 packet with header option
kni: fix kernel deadlock with bifurcated device
kni: refactor user request processing
kni: support async user request
license: fix typos
log/linux: make default output stderr
mbuf: check shared memory before dumping dynamic space
mem: fix freeing segments in –huge-unlink mode
net/af_xdp: fix error handling during Rx queue setup
net/ark: fix leak on thread termination
net/ark: refactor Rx buffer recovery
net/ark: update packet director initial state
net/bnx2x: fix build with GCC 11
net/bnx2x: fix build with GCC 11
net/bnxt: check kvargs parsing
net/bnxt: check PCI config read
net/bnxt: drop unused attribute
net/bnxt: fix configuring LRO
net/bnxt: fix device readiness check
net/bnxt: fix double free in port start failure
net/bnxt: fix dynamic VNIC count
net/bnxt: fix firmware fatal error handling
net/bnxt: fix FW readiness check during recovery
net/bnxt: fix handling of null flow mask
net/bnxt: fix health check alarm cancellation
net/bnxt: fix HWRM and FW incompatibility handling
net/bnxt: fix link state operations
net/bnxt: fix memory allocation for command response
net/bnxt: fix mismatched type comparison in MAC restore
net/bnxt: fix mismatched type comparison in Rx
net/bnxt: fix PCI write check
net/bnxt: fix PTP support for Thor
net/bnxt: fix queues per VNIC
net/bnxt: fix resource cleanup
net/bnxt: fix ring count calculation for Thor
net/bnxt: fix RSS context cleanup
net/bnxt: fix Rx and Tx timestamps
net/bnxt: fix Rx buffer posting
net/bnxt: fix Rx descriptor status
net/bnxt: fix Rx queue count
net/bnxt: fix Rx timestamp when FIFO pending bit is set
net/bnxt: fix single PF per port check
net/bnxt: fix timesync when PTP is not supported
net/bnxt: fix Tx length hint threshold
net/bnxt: fix Tx timestamp init
net/bnxt: fix VF info allocation
net/bnxt: fix VNIC configuration
net/bnxt: fix xstats get
net/bnxt: mute some failure logs
net/bnxt: prevent device access in error state
net/bnxt: refactor multi-queue Rx configuration
net/bnxt: remove unnecessary forward declarations
net/bnxt: remove unused function parameters
net/bnxt: remove unused macro
net/bnxt: use prefix on global function
net/bonding: fix adding itself as its slave
net/bonding: fix LACP system address check
net/bonding: fix leak on remove
net/bonding: fix socket ID check
net/cxgbe: remove use of uint type
net/dpaa2: fix getting link status
net/dpaa: fix getting link status
net/e1000/base: fix timeout for shadow RAM write
net/e1000: fix flow error message object
net/e1000: fix max Rx packet size
net/e1000: fix Rx error counter for bad length
net/e1000: remove MTU setting limitation
net/ena/base: destroy multiple wait events
net/ena/base: fix type conversions by explicit casting
net/ena/base: improve style and comments
net/ena: fix crash with unsupported device argument
net/ena: fix parsing of large LLQ header device argument
net/ena: fix releasing Tx ring mbufs
net/ena: indicate Rx RSS hash presence
net/ena: remove endian swap functions
net/ena: report default ring size
net/ena: switch memcpy to optimized version
net/enic: enable GENEVE offload via VNIC configuration
net/enic: fix flow initialization error handling
net/failsafe: fix RSS hash offload reporting
net/failsafe: report minimum and maximum MTU
net: fix comment in IPv6 header
net/hinic: fix crash in secondary process
net/hns3: clear hash map on flow director clear
net/hns3: delete redundant blank line
net/hns3: fail setting FEC if one bit mode is not supported
net/hns3: fix concurrent interrupt handling
net/hns3: fix configure FEC when concurrent with reset
net/hns3: fix copyright date
net/hns3: fix DCB configuration
net/hns3: fix DCB mode check
net/hns3: fix DCB reconfiguration
net/hns3: fix device capabilities for copper media type
net/hns3: fix flow control exception
net/hns3: fix flow control mode
net/hns3: fix flow counter value
net/hns3: fix flow director lock
net/hns3: fix FLR miss detection
net/hns3: fix handling link update
net/hns3: fix HW buffer size on MTU update
net/hns3: fix link speed when port is down
net/hns3: fix link speed when VF device is down
net/hns3: fix link status when port is stopped
net/hns3: fix link update when failed to get link info
net/hns3: fix log on flow director clear
net/hns3: fix long task queue pairs reset time
net/hns3: fix mailbox error message
net/hns3: fix mailbox message ID in log
net/hns3: fix mbuf leakage
net/hns3: fix missing outer L4 UDP flag for VXLAN
net/hns3: fix MTU config complexity
net/hns3: fix ordering in secondary process initialization
net/hns3: fix possible mismatched response of mailbox
net/hns3: fix processing link status message on PF
net/hns3: fix processing Tx offload flags
net/hns3: fix querying flow director counter for out param
net/hns3: fix queue state when concurrent with reset
net/hns3: fix reporting undefined speed
net/hns3: fix requested FC mode rollback
net/hns3: fix rollback after setting PVID failure
net/hns3: fix Rx/Tx queue numbers check
net/hns3: fix secondary process request start/stop Rx/Tx
net/hns3: fix setting default MAC address in bonding of VF
net/hns3: fix some packet types
net/hns3: fix time delta calculation
net/hns3: fix timing in mailbox
net/hns3: fix timing in resetting queues
net/hns3: fix TM QCN error event report by MSI-X
net/hns3: fix Tx checksum for UDP packets with special port
net/hns3: fix typos on comments
net/hns3: fix use of command status enumeration
net/hns3: fix vector Rx burst limitation
net/hns3: fix verification of NEON support
net/hns3: fix VF alive notification after config restore
net/hns3: fix VF handling LSC event in secondary process
net/hns3: fix VF mailbox head field
net/hns3: fix VMDq mode check
net/hns3: increase readability in logs
net/hns3: log time delta in decimal format
net/hns3: remove meaningless packet buffer rollback
net/hns3: remove read when enabling TM QCN error event
net/hns3: remove redundant mailbox response
net/hns3: remove unused macro
net/hns3: remove unused macros
net/hns3: remove unused macros
net/hns3: remove unused mailbox macro and struct
net/hns3: remove unused parameter markers
net/hns3: remove unused VMDq code
net/hns3: remove VLAN/QinQ ptypes from support list
net/hns3: return error on PCI config write failure
net/hns3: support get device version when dump register
net/hns3: update HiSilicon copyright syntax
net/i40e: announce request queue capability in PF
net/i40e: fix flow director config after flow validate
net/i40e: fix flow director for common pctypes
net/i40e: fix input set field mask
net/i40e: fix IPv4 fragment offload
net/i40e: fix lack of MAC type when set MAC address
net/i40e: fix negative VEB index
net/i40e: fix parsing packet type for NEON
net/i40e: fix primary MAC type when starting port
net/i40e: fix VF RSS configuration
net/i40e: remove redundant VSI check in Tx queue setup
net/i40evf: fix packet loss for X722
net/iavf: fix crash in AVX512
net/iavf: fix lack of MAC type when set MAC address
net/iavf: fix packet length parsing in AVX512
net/iavf: fix primary MAC type when starting port
net/iavf: fix TSO max segment size
net/iavf: fix VF to PF command failure handling
net/iavf: fix wrong Tx context descriptor
net/ice/base: cleanup filter list on error
net/ice/base: fix build with GCC 11
net/ice/base: fix memory allocation for MAC addresses
net/ice/base: fix memory allocation wrapper
net/ice/base: fix payload indicator on ptype
net/ice/base: fix uninitialized struct
net/ice: check some functions return
net/ice: fix crash in AVX512
net/ice: fix disabling promiscuous mode
net/ice: fix fast mbuf freeing
net/ice: fix illegal access when removing MAC filter
net/ice: fix leak on thread termination
net/ice: fix RSS for L2 packet
net/ice: fix RSS hash update
net/ice: fix VLAN filter with PF
net/ice: fix VSI array out of bounds access
net/igc: fix Rx error counter for bad length
net/igc: fix Rx packet size
net/igc: fix Rx RSS hash offload capability
net/igc: fix speed configuration
net/igc: remove MTU setting limitation
net/igc: remove use of uint type
net/ionic: fix completion type in lif init
net/ixgbe: fix RSS RETA being reset after port start
net/ixgbe: fix Rx errors statistics for UDP checksum
net/kni: check init result
net/kni: warn on stop failure
net/memif: fix Tx bps statistics for zero-copy
net/mlx4: fix buffer leakage on device close
net/mlx4: fix leak when configured repeatedly
net/mlx4: fix RSS action with null hash key
net/mlx4: fix secondary process initialization ordering
net/mlx5: fix counter offset detection
net/mlx5: fix drop action for Direct Rules/Verbs
net/mlx5: fix external buffer pool registration for Rx queue
net/mlx5: fix flow actions index in cache
net/mlx5: fix flow age event triggering
net/mlx5: fix hashed list size for tunnel flow groups
net/mlx5: fix leak when configured repeatedly
net/mlx5: fix loopback for Direct Verbs queue
net/mlx5: fix metadata item validation for ingress flows
net/mlx5: fix missing shared RSS hash types
net/mlx5: fix probing device in legacy bonding mode
net/mlx5: fix receiving queue timestamp format
net/mlx5: fix redundant flow after RSS expansion
net/mlx5: fix resource release for mirror flow
net/mlx5: fix RSS flow item expansion for GRE key
net/mlx5: fix RSS flow item expansion for NVGRE
net/mlx5: fix Rx metadata leftovers
net/mlx5: fix Rx segmented packets on mbuf starvation
net/mlx5: fix secondary process initialization ordering
net/mlx5: fix shared inner RSS
net/mlx5: fix tunnel offload private items location
net/mlx5: fix UAR allocation diagnostics messages
net/mlx5: fix using flow tunnel before null check
net/mlx5/linux: fix firmware version
net/mlx5: remove drop queue function prototypes
net/mlx5: support RSS expansion for IPv6 GRE
net/mlx5: support timestamp format
net/nfp: fix reporting of RSS capabilities
net/octeontx2: fix VLAN filter
net/pcap: fix file descriptor leak on close
net/pcap: fix format string
net/qede: accept bigger RSS table
net/qede: reduce log verbosity
net/sfc: fix buffer size for flow parse
net/sfc: fix error path inconsistency
net/sfc: fix mark support in EF100 native Rx datapath
net/sfc: fix outer rule rollback on error
net/tap: check ioctl on restore
net/tap: fix build with GCC 11
net/tap: fix interrupt vector array size
net/txgbe: fix QinQ strip
net/txgbe: fix Rx missed packet counter
net/txgbe: remove unused functions
net/txgbe: update packet type
net/vhost: restore pseudo TSO support
net/virtio: fix getline memory leakage
net/virtio: fix interrupt unregistering for listening socket
net/virtio: fix vectorized Rx queue rearm
pipeline: fix endianness conversions
pipeline: fix instruction translation
power: do not skip saving original P-state governor
power: fix sanity checks for guest channel read
power: remove duplicated symbols from map file
power: save original ACPI governor always
raw/ifpga: fix device name format
raw/ioat: fix script for configuring small number of queues
raw/ntb: check memory allocations
raw/ntb: check SPAD user index
raw/octeontx2_dma: assign PCI device in DPI VF
raw/skeleton: add missing check after setting attribute
regex/mlx5: support timestamp format
regex/octeontx2: remove unused include directory
sched: fix traffic class oversubscription parameter
service: clean references to removed symbol
stack: allow lock-free only on relevant architectures
table: fix actions with different data size
telemetry: fix race on callbacks list
test/bpf: fix error message
test: check flow classifier creation
test: check thread creation
test/cmdline: fix inputs array
test/cmdline: silence clang 12 warning
test/crypto: copy offset data to OOP destination buffer
test/crypto: fix auth-cipher compare length in OOP
test/crypto: fix build with GCC 11
test/crypto: fix return value of a skipped test
test/distributor: fix burst flush on worker quit
test/distributor: fix worker notification in burst mode
test/event: fix timeout accuracy
test: fix autotest handling of skipped tests
test: fix build with GCC 11
test: fix division by zero
test: fix TCP header initialization
test/kni: check init result
test/kni: fix a comment
test/mem: fix page size for external memory
test/mempool: fix object initializer
test/power: add delay before checking CPU frequency
test/power: add turbo mode to frequency check
test/power: fix CPU frequency check
test/power: fix low frequency test when turbo enabled
test/power: fix turbo test
test/power: round CPU frequency to check
test: proceed if timer subsystem already initialized
test/table: fix build with GCC 11
test/timer: check memzone allocation
test/trace: fix race on collected perf data
vdpa/ifc: check PCI config read
vdpa/mlx5: fix device unplug
vdpa/mlx5: fix virtq cleaning
vdpa/mlx5: support timestamp format
version: 20.11.2-rc1
version: 20.11.2-rc2
vfio: do not merge contiguous areas
vfio: fix API description
vfio: fix DMA mapping granularity for IOVA as VA
vfio: fix duplicated user mem map
vhost: fix batch dequeue potential buffer overflow
vhost: fix initialization of async temporary header
vhost: fix initialization of temporary header
vhost: fix offload flags in Rx path
vhost: fix packed ring potential buffer overflow
vhost: fix queue initialization
vhost: fix redundant vring status change notification
vhost: fix split ring potential buffer overflow

1.7.2. 20.11.2 Validation

Intel(R) Testing
- Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
  PF(i40e, ixgbe, ice)
  
  VF(i40e, ixgbe, ice)
  
  Compile testing
  
  Intel NIC single core/NIC performance
- Basic cryptodev and virtio testing
  Virtio function and performance
  
  Cryptodev function and performance
Nvidia(R) Testing
- Basic functionality with testpmd
  Tx/Rx
  
  xstats
  
  Timestamps
  
  Link status
  
  RTE flow and flow_director
  
  RSS
  
  VLAN stripping and insertion
  
  Checksum/TSO
  
  ptype
  
  link_status_interrupt example application
  
  l3fwd-power example application
  
  Multi-process example applications
  
  Hardware LRO
- Build tests
  Ubuntu 20.04.2 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1.
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.2 with rdma-core master (a66e2a5).
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.2 with rdma-core v28.0.
  
  Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core v17.1.
  
  Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core master (a66e2a5) (i386).
  
  Ubuntu 16.04.7 with rdma-core v22.7.
  
  Fedora 34 with rdma-core v35.0.
  
  Fedora 35 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v35.0 (only with gcc).
  
  CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (a66e2a5).
  
  CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1.
  
  CentOS 8 8.3.2011 with rdma-core master (7f2d460).
  
  OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 with rdma-core v31.0.
- ConnectX-4 Lx
  OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  
  Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1
  
  Firmware: 14.30.1004
- ConnectX-5
  OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  
  Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1
  
  Firmware: 16.30.1004
Broadcom(R) Testing
- Functionality
  Tx/Rx
  
  Link status
  
  RSS
  
  TSO
  
  VLAN filtering
  
  MAC filtering
  
  statistics
  
  Checksum offload
  
  MTU
  
  Promiscuous mode
  
  Multicast
- Platform
  BCM57414 NetXtreme-E 10Gb/25Gb Ethernet Controller, Firmware: 219.0.88.0
  
  BCM57508 NetXtreme-E 10Gb/25Gb/40Gb/50Gb/100Gb/200Gb Ethernet, Firmware : 220.0.0.100

1.7.3. 20.11.2 Known Issues

Build
- Clang build is failing in Fedora 35. https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745
I40E/IXGBE
- Flow director does not work. Fixed in 21.08.
ICE
- Packet can’t be distributed to the same queue after reconfiguration. Fixed in 21.08.
- The hash value remains unchanged when the SCTP port value changed. Fixed in 21.08 new feature.

1.8. 20.11.3 Release Notes

1.8.1. 20.11.3 Fixes

app/crypto-perf: fix out-of-place mempool allocation
app/test: fix IPv6 header initialization
app/testpmd: change port link speed without stopping all
app/testpmd: fix help string for port reset
app/testpmd: fix IPv4 checksum
app/testpmd: fix MAC address after port reset
app/testpmd: fix offloads for newly attached port
app/testpmd: fix Tx checksum calculation for tunnel
app/testpmd: fix type of FEC mode parsing output
bitmap: fix buffer overrun in bitmap init
build: support drivers symlink on Windows
bus: clarify log for non-NUMA-aware devices
bus/dpaa: fix freeing in FMAN interface destructor
bus/pci: fix IOVA as VA support for PowerNV
bus/pci: fix leak for unbound devices
common/mlx5: fix compatibility with OFED port query API
common/mlx5: fix memory region leak
common/mlx5: fix Netlink port name padding in probing
common/mlx5: fix Netlink receive message buffer size
common/mlx5: use new port query API if available
crypto/aesni_gcm: fix performance on some AVX512 CPUs
cryptodev: fix freeing after device release
crypto/mvsam: fix AES-GCM session parameters
crypto/mvsam: fix capabilities
crypto/mvsam: fix options parsing
crypto/mvsam: fix session data reset
crypto/octeontx2: fix IPsec session member overlap
crypto/octeontx2: fix lookaside IPsec IV pointer
crypto/octeontx: fix freeing after device release
crypto/qat: disable asymmetric crypto on GEN3
crypto/qat: fix Arm build with special memcpy
devtools: fix file listing in maintainers check
distributor: fix 128-bit write alignment
doc: add limitation for ConnectX-4 with L2 in mlx5 guide
doc: fix build on Windows with Meson 0.58
doc: fix default burst size in testpmd
doc: fix spelling
doc: fix typo in SPDX tag
doc: remove old deprecation notice for sched
doc: update atomic operation deprecation
drivers/net: fix memzone allocations for DMA memory
eal/windows: check callback parameter of alarm functions
eal/windows: cleanup virt2phys handle
ethdev: fix doc of flow action
eventdev: fix event port setup in Tx adapter
examples/l2fwd: fix [no-]mac-updating options
flow_classify: fix leaking rules on delete
graph: fix memory leak in stats
graph: fix null dereference in stats
ipc: stop mp control thread on cleanup
kni: fix crash on userspace VA for segmented packets
kni: fix mbuf allocation for kernel side use
malloc: fix size annotation for NUMA-aware realloc
mempool/octeontx2: fix shift calculation
net/bnxt: check access to possible null pointer
net/bnxt: cleanup code
net/bnxt: clear cached statistics
net/bnxt: detect bad opaque in Rx completion
net/bnxt: fix aarch32 build
net/bnxt: fix auto-negociation on Whitney+
net/bnxt: fix check for PTP support in FW
net/bnxt: fix error handling in VNIC prepare
net/bnxt: fix error messages in VNIC prepare
net/bnxt: fix missing barriers in completion handling
net/bnxt: fix nested lock during bonding
net/bnxt: fix null dereference in interrupt handler
net/bnxt: fix ring allocation and free
net/bnxt: fix ring and context memory allocation
net/bnxt: fix Rx burst size constraint
net/bnxt: fix Rx interrupt setting
net/bnxt: fix scalar Tx completion handling
net/bnxt: fix Tx descriptor status implementation
net/bnxt: fix typo in log message
net/bnxt: improve probing log message
net/bnxt: invoke device removal event on recovery failure
net/bnxt: remove unnecessary code
net/bnxt: remove unnecessary comment
net/bnxt: remove workaround for default VNIC
net/bnxt: set flow error after tunnel redirection free
net/bnxt: set flow error when free filter not available
net/bnxt: use common function to free VNIC resource
net/bnxt: workaround spurious zero stats in Thor
net/bonding: check flow setting
net/bonding: fix error message on flow verify
net/dpaa: fix headroom in VSP case
net/ena: enable multi-segment in Tx offload flags
net/ena: trigger reset on Tx prepare failure
net/hinic/base: fix LRO
net/hinic: fix MTU consistency with firmware
net/hinic: increase protection of the VLAN
net/hns3: fix Arm SVE build with GCC 8.3
net/hns3: fix delay for waiting to stop Rx/Tx
net/hns3: fix fake queue rollback
net/hns3: fix filter parsing comment
net/hns3: fix flow rule list in multi-process
net/hns3: fix maximum queues on configuration failure
net/hns3: fix residual MAC address entry
net/hns3: fix timing of clearing interrupt source
net/hns3: fix Tx prepare after stop
net/hns3: fix VLAN strip log
net/hns3: increase VF reset retry maximum
net/i40e: fix descriptor scan on Arm
net/i40e: fix flow director input set conflict
net/i40e: fix multi-process shared data
net/i40e: fix raw packet flow director
net/i40e: fix use after free in FDIR release
net/iavf: fix handling of unsupported promiscuous
net/iavf: fix RSS key access out of bound
net/iavf: fix scalar Rx
net/iavf: fix Tx threshold check
net/ice: fix data path in secondary process
net/ice: fix data path selection in secondary process
net/ice: fix default RSS key generation
net/ice: fix memzone leak when firmware is missing
net/ice: fix overflow in maximum packet length config
net/ixgbe: fix flow entry access after freeing
net/memif: fix abstract socket address length
net/mlx5: add Tx scheduling check on queue creation
net/mlx5: export PMD-specific API file
net/mlx5: fix default queue number in RSS flow rule
net/mlx5: fix flow engine type in function name
net/mlx5: fix imissed statistics
net/mlx5: fix indirect action modify rollback
net/mlx5: fix IPIP multi-tunnel validation
net/mlx5: fix match MPLS over GRE with key
net/mlx5: fix missing RSS expandable items
net/mlx5: fix missing RSS expansion of IPv6 frag
net/mlx5: fix MPLS RSS expansion
net/mlx5: fix multi-segment inline for the first segments
net/mlx5: fix overflow in mempool argument
net/mlx5: fix pattern expansion in RSS flow rules
net/mlx5: fix queue leaking in hairpin auto bind check
net/mlx5: fix representor interrupt handler
net/mlx5: fix RoCE LAG bond device probing
net/mlx5: fix RSS expansion for GTP
net/mlx5: fix RSS flow rule with L4 mismatch
net/mlx5: fix RSS pattern expansion
net/mlx5: fix r/w lock usage in DMA unmap
net/mlx5: fix Rx/Tx queue checks
net/mlx5: fix switchdev mode recognition
net/mlx5: fix threshold for mbuf replenishment in MPRQ
net/mlx5: fix timestamp initialization on empty clock queue
net/mlx5: fix TSO multi-segment inline length
net/mlx5: fix typo in vectorized Rx comments
net/mlx5: reject inner ethernet matching in GTP
net/mlx5: remove redundant operations in NEON Rx
net/mlx5: remove unsupported flow item MPLS over IP
net/mlx5: workaround drop action with old kernel
net/mvpp2: fix configured state dependency
net/mvpp2: fix port speed overflow
net/octeontx2: fix default MCAM allocation size
net/octeontx2: fix flow creation limit on CN98xx
net/octeontx2: fix TM node statistics query
net/octeontx2: use runtime LSO format indices
net/octeontx/base: fix debug build with clang
net/pfe: remove unnecessary null check
net/sfc: check ID overflow in action port ID
net/sfc: fix aarch32 build
net/sfc: fix MAC stats lock in xstats query by ID
net/sfc: fix MAC stats update for stopped device
net/sfc: fix outer L4 checksum Rx
net/sfc: fix outer match in MAE backend
net/sfc: fix reading adapter state without locking
net/sfc: fix xstats query by ID according to ethdev
net/sfc: fix xstats query by unsorted list of IDs
net/softnic: fix connection memory leak
net/softnic: fix memory leak as profile is freed
net/softnic: fix memory leak in arguments parsing
net/softnic: fix null dereference in arguments parsing
net/tap: fix Rx checksum flags on IP options packets
net/tap: fix Rx checksum flags on TCP packets
net/virtio: fix aarch32 build
net/virtio: fix default duplex mode
net/virtio: fix interrupt handle leak
net/virtio: fix refill order in packed ring datapath
net/virtio: fix Rx scatter offload
net/virtio: report maximum MTU in device info
raw/ioat: fix config script queue size calculation
regex/mlx5: fix redundancy in device removal
regex/mlx5: fix size of setup constants
rib: fix max depth IPv6 lookup
sched: fix profile allocation failure handling
sched: rework configuration failure handling
table: fix bucket empty check
test/crypto: fix autotest function parameters
test/crypto: fix mbuf reset after null check
test/crypto: fix mempool size for session-less
test/crypto: fix typo in AES case
test/crypto: fix typo in ESN case
test/mbuf: fix virtual address conversion
test/power: fix CPU frequency check for intel_pstate
test/power: fix CPU frequency when turbo enabled
tests/cmdline: fix memory leaks
tests/eal: fix memory leak
vdpa/mlx5: fix overflow in queue attribute
vdpa/mlx5: fix TSO offload without checksum
version: 20.11.3-rc1
vfio: add stdbool include
vhost: check header for legacy dequeue offload
vhost/crypto: check request pointer before dereference
vhost: fix crash on reconnect
vhost: fix lock on device readiness notification
vhost: fix missing guest pages table NUMA realloc
vhost: fix missing memory table NUMA realloc
vhost: fix NUMA reallocation with multi-queue

1.8.2. 20.11.3 Validation

Intel(R) Testing
- Basic Intel(R) NIC(ixgbe, i40e and ice) testing
  
  PF (i40e)
  
  PF (ixgbe)
  
  PF (ice)
  
  VF (i40e)
  
  VF (ixgbe)
  
  VF (ice)
  
  Compile Testing
  
  Intel NIC single core/NIC performance
  
  Power and IPsec
- Basic cryptodev and virtio testing
  vhost/virtio basic loopback, PVP and performance test
  
  cryptodev Function/Performance
Nvidia(R) Testing
- Basic functionality with testpmd
  Tx/Rx
  
  xstats
  
  Timestamps
  
  Link status
  
  RTE flow and flow_director
  
  RSS
  
  VLAN stripping and insertion
  
  Checksum/TSO
  
  ptype
  
  link_status_interrupt example application
  
  l3fwd-power example application
  
  Multi-process example applications
  
  Hardware LRO tests
- Build tests
  Ubuntu 20.04.2 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.4-1.0.3.0.
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.2 with rdma-core master (64d1ae5).
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.2 with rdma-core v28.0.
  
  Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core v17.1.
  
  Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core master (5b0f5b2) (i386).
  
  Ubuntu 16.04.7 with rdma-core v22.7.
  
  Fedora 34 with rdma-core v36.0.
  
  Fedora 36 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v36.0 (only with gcc).
  
  CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (64d1ae5).
  
  CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.4-1.0.3.0.
  
  CentOS 8 8.3.2011 with rdma-core master (64d1ae5).
  
  OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 with rdma-core v31.0.
- ConnectX-5
  Ubuntu 20.04
  
  Driver MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.4-1.0.3.0
  
  Kernel: 5.14.0-rc6 / Driver: rdma-core v36.0
  
  fw 16.31.1014
- ConnectX-4 Lx
  Ubuntu 20.04
  
  Driver MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.4-1.0.3.0
  
  Kernel: 5.14.0-rc6 / Driver: rdma-core v36.0
  
  fw 14.31.1014
Red Hat(R) Testing
- Platform
  RHEL 8
  
  Kernel 4.18
  
  Qemu 6.0
  
  X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)
- Functionality
  Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size)
  
  Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size)
  
  Guest with device assignment(VF) throughput testing
  
  PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing
  
  PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing
  
  PVP vhost-user 1Q cross numa node throughput testing
  
  Guest with vhost-user 2 queues throughput testing
  
  vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: qemu reconnect
  
  vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: ovs reconnect
  
  PVP 1Q live migration testing
  
  PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M)
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing
  
  Host PF + DPDK testing
  
  Host VF + DPDK testing
Canonical(R) Testing
- Build tests of DPDK & OVS 2.15.0 on Ubuntu 21.04 (meson based)
- Functional and performance tests based on OVS-DPDK on x86_64
- Autopkgtests for DPDK and OpenvSwitch

1.8.3. 20.11.3 Known Issues

ICE
- creating 512 acl rules after creating a full mask switch rule fails.
vhost/virtio
- udp-fragmentation-offload cannot be setup on Ubuntu 19.10 VMs. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207075
- vm2vm virtio-net connectivity between two vms randomly fails due to lost connection after vhost reconnect.
unit tests
- unit_tests_power/power_cpufreq fails. https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790
IAVF
- cvl_advanced_iavf_rss: after changing the SCTP port value, the hash value remains unchanged.

1.9. 20.11.4 Release Notes

1.9.1. 20.11.4 Fixes

app/crypto-perf: fix AAD template copy overrun
app/eventdev: fix terminal colour after control-c exit
app/flow-perf: fix parsing of invalid option
app/testpmd: add tunnel types
app/testpmd: fix access to DSCP table entries
app/testpmd: fix check without outer checksum
app/testpmd: fix DCB in VT configuration
app/testpmd: fix dump of Tx offload flags
app/testpmd: fix hexadecimal parser with odd length
app/testpmd: fix hex string parser in flow commands
app/testpmd: fix packet burst spreading stats
app/testpmd: fix RSS key length
app/testpmd: fix RSS type display
app/testpmd: fix tunnel offload validation
app/testpmd: fix txonly forwarding
app/testpmd: fix Tx retry in flowgen engine
app/testpmd: remove double dependency on bitrate lib
app/testpmd: remove unused header file
app/testpmd: retain all original dev conf when config DCB
app/testpmd: update forward engine beginning
baseband/acc100: fix 4GUL outbound size
bitrate: fix calculation to match API description
bitrate: fix registration to match API description
bpf: allow self-xor operation
build: disable Windows warnings for insecure funtions
build: propagate Windows system dependencies to pkg-config
bus/fslmc: remove unused device count
bus/pci: fix unknown NUMA node value on Windows
bus/pci: fix unknown NUMA node value on Windows
bus/vmbus: fix leak on device scan
bus/vmbus: fix ring buffer mapping in secondary process
common/cpt: fix KASUMI input length
common/dpaax/caamflib: fix IV for short MAC-I in SNOW3G
common/dpaax: fix physical address conversion
common/iavf: fix ARQ resource leak
common/mlx5: create wrapped MR
common/mlx5: fix build for zero-length headroom array
common/mlx5: fix flex parser DevX creation routine
common/mlx5: fix physical port name recognition
common/mlx5: fix UAR allocation diagnostics messages
common/mlx5: fix user mode register access attribute
common/mlx5: glue MR registration with IOVA
common/mlx5: remove unreachable branch in UAR allocation
common/qat: fix queue pairs number
common/qat: revert fix queut pairs number
common/sfc_efx: fix debug compilation control
config/ppc: ignore GCC 11 psabi warnings
config/x86: skip GNU binutils bug check for LLVM
cryptodev: fix multi-segment raw vector processing
crypto/ipsec_mb: fix cipher key setting
crypto/octeontx2: fix lookaside IPsec IPv6
crypto/octeontx2: fix unaligned access to device memory
crypto/openssl: fix CCM processing 0 length source
crypto/qat: fix status in RSA decryption
crypto/qat: fix uncleared cookies after operation
devtools: fix letter case check in commit title
doc: capitalise PMD
doc: describe timestamp limitations for mlx5
doc: fix a typo in EAL guide
doc: fix bonding driver name
doc: fix default mempool option in guides
doc: fix Doxygen examples build on FreeBSD
doc: fix emulated device names in e1000 guide
doc: fix memif driver acronyms
doc: fix numbers power of 2 in LPM6 guide
doc: fix typo in coding style
doc: remove repeated repeated words
doc: strip build artefacts for examples file list
doc: update NIC feature matrix for bnxt
drivers/crypto: fix IPsec TTL decrement option
drivers/net: fix typo in vector Rx comment
drivers/net: fix vector Rx comments
drivers/net: remove queue xstats auto-fill flag
eal/common: exclude code unsupported on Windows
eal: fix device iterator when no bus is selected
eal: fix memory leak when saving arguments
eal/freebsd: fix IOVA mode selection
eal/freebsd: ignore in-memory option
eal/freebsd: lock memory device to prevent conflicts
eal/linux: fix uevent message parsing
eal/linux: remove unused variable for socket memory
eal/ppc: ignore GCC 10 stringop-overflow warnings
eal: remove Windows-specific list of common files
eal: reset lcore task callback and argument
eal/windows: do not install virt2phys header
eal/windows: export version function
eal/windows: fix CPU cores counting
eal/windows: fix IOVA mode detection and handling
eal/x86: avoid cast-align warning in memcpy functions
eal/x86: fix some CPU extended features definitions
ethdev: fix crash on owner delete
ethdev: fix PCI device release in secondary process
ethdev: fix typo in Rx queue setup API comment
ethdev: fix typos
ethdev: fix xstats by ID API documentation
ethdev: forbid closing started device
eventdev/eth_rx: fix WRR buffer overrun
eventdev/eth_tx: fix queue delete logic
event/dlb2: fix delayed pop test in selftest
event/sw: remove unused inflight events count
examples/fips_validation: fix device start
examples/fips_validation: fix resetting pointer
examples/fips_validation: remove unused allocation
examples/ipsec-secgw: fix parsing of flow queue
examples/ipsec-secgw: move global array from header
examples/l3fwd-power: fix early shutdown
examples/multi_process: fix Rx packets distribution
examples/ntb: fix build dependency
examples/performance-thread: fix build with clang 12.0.1
examples/performance-thread: remove unused hits count
examples/ptpclient: fix delay request message
examples/service_cores: fix lcore count check
fix PMD wording
fix spelling in comments and doxygen
hash: fix Doxygen comment of Toeplitz file
interrupt: fix request notifier interrupt processing
kni: check error code of allmulticast mode switch
kni: fix build for SLES15-SP3
kni: restrict bifurcated device support
kvargs: fix comments style
lpm6: fix buffer overflow
malloc: fix allocation with unknown socket ID
mbuf: avoid cast-align warning in data offset macro
mbuf: enforce no option for dynamic fields and flags
mbuf: fix dump of dynamic fields and flags
mbuf: fix reset on mbuf free
mbuf: fix typo in comment
mem: fix dynamic hugepage mapping in container
mempool: deprecate unused physical page defines
net/af_packet: fix ignoring full ring on Tx
net/af_xdp: disable secondary process support
net/af_xdp: fix zero-copy Tx queue drain
net: avoid cast-align warning in VLAN insert function
net/axgbe: fix unreleased lock in I2C transfer
net/bnxt: check FW capability for VLAN offloads
net/bnxt: fix autoneg on PAM4 links
net/bnxt: fix crash after port stop/start
net/bnxt: fix double allocation of ring groups
net/bnxt: fix firmware version query
net/bnxt: fix function driver register/unregister
net/bnxt: fix mbuf VLAN in scalar Rx
net/bnxt: fix memzone free for Tx and Rx rings
net/bnxt: fix ring group free
net/bnxt: fix Rx next consumer index in mbuf alloc fail
net/bnxt: fix tunnel port accounting
net/bnxt: fix Tx queue startup state
net/bnxt: fix VLAN indication in Rx mbuf
net/bnxt: remove some unused variables
net/bnxt: update ring group after ring stop start
net/bonding: fix dedicated queue mode in vector burst
net/bonding: fix memory leak on closing device
net/bonding: fix RSS key length
net/e1000: fix memzone leak on queue re-configure
net/ena: advertise scattered Rx capability
net/ena: fix offload capabilities verification
net/ena: fix per-queue offload capabilities
net/enic: avoid error message when no advanced filtering
net/enic: fix filter mode detection
net/failsafe: fix secondary process probe
net: fix aliasing in checksum computation
net: fix checksum API documentation
net: fix checksum offload for outer IPv4
net/hinic/base: remove some unused variables
net/hns3: fix input parameters of MAC functions
net/hns3: fix interrupt vector freeing
net/hns3: fix mailbox communication with HW
net/hns3: fix multi-process action register and unregister
net/hns3: fix queue flow action validation
net/hns3: fix residual MAC after setting default MAC
net/hns3: fix secondary process reference count
net/hns3: fix taskqueue pair reset command
net/hns3: optimize Tx performance by mbuf fast free
net/hns3: simplify queue DMA address arithmetic
net/hns3: unregister MP action on close for secondary
net/i40e/base: fix AOC media type
net/i40e/base: fix function name in comments
net/i40e/base: fix PF reset
net/i40e/base: fix PHY identifiers for 2.5G and 5G adapters
net/i40e/base: fix potentially uninitialized variables
net/i40e/base: fix resource leakage
net/i40e/base: fix update link data for X722
net/i40e/base: fix using checksum before check
net/i40e: fix 32-bit build
net/i40e: fix buffer size alignment
net/i40e: fix device startup resource release
net/i40e: fix forward outer IPv6 VXLAN
net/i40e: fix i40evf device initialization
net/i40e: fix mbuf leak
net/i40e: fix memzone leak on queue re-configure
net/i40e: fix risk in descriptor read in NEON Rx
net/i40e: fix risk in descriptor read in scalar Rx
net/i40e: fix Rx packet statistics
net/i40e: support 25G AOC/ACC cables
net/i40evf: extend the polling times of vf reset
net/iavf: fix high CPU usage on frequent command
net/iavf: fix mbuf leak
net/iavf: fix mbuf leak
net/iavf: fix multi-process shared data
net/iavf: fix overflow in maximum packet length config
net/iavf: fix pointer of meta data
net/iavf: fix Rx queue buffer size alignment
net/iavf: fix Rx queue IRQ resource leak
net/iavf: fix shared data in multi-process
net/ice/base: calculate logical PF ID
net/ice/base: fix PF ID for DCF
net/ice/base: fix typo in comment
net/ice: fix deadlock on flow query
net/ice: fix deadlock on flow redirect
net/ice: fix double free ACL flow entry
net/ice: fix flow redirect
net/ice: fix function pointer in multi-process
net/ice: fix generic build on FreeBSD
net/ice: fix max entry number for ACL normal priority
net/ice: fix memzone leak after device init failure
net/ice: fix memzone leak on queue re-configure
net/ice: fix performance with writeback policy
net/ice: fix queue config in DCF
net/ice: fix RXDID default value in DCF
net/ice: retry getting VF VSI map after failure
net/ice: save rule on switch filter creation
net/ixgbe: fix hash handle leak
net/ixgbe: fix MAC resource leak
net/ixgbe: fix mbuf leak
net/ixgbe: fix memzone leak on queue re-configure
net/ixgbe: fix port initialization if MTU config fails
net/ixgbe: fix queue release
net/ixgbe: fix queue resource leak
net/ixgbe: fix Rx multicast statistics after reset
net/liquidio: remove unused counter
net/memif: allow stopping and closing device
net/memif: fix chained mbuf determination
net/mlx4: fix empty Ethernet spec with VLAN
net/mlx5: add Ethernet header to GENEVE RSS expansion
net/mlx5: close tools socket with last device
net/mlx5: do not close stdin on error
net/mlx5: fix Altivec Rx
net/mlx5: fix devargs validation for multi-class probing
net/mlx5: fix eCPRI matching
net/mlx5: fix flow mark with sampling and metering
net/mlx5: fix flow shared age action reference counting
net/mlx5: fix flow tables double release
net/mlx5: fix GENEVE and VXLAN-GPE flow item matching
net/mlx5: fix GENEVE protocol type translation
net/mlx5: fix GRE flow item matching
net/mlx5: fix GRE protocol type translation
net/mlx5: fix mbuf replenishment check for zipped CQE
net/mlx5: fix memory leak on context allocation failure
net/mlx5: fix metadata and meter split shared tag
net/mlx5: fix MPLS tunnel outer layer overwrite
net/mlx5: fix multi-segment packet wraparound
net/mlx5: fix mutex unlock in Tx packet pacing cleanup
net/mlx5: fix partial inline of fine grain packets
net/mlx5: fix RETA update without stopping device
net/mlx5: fix RSS expansion for explicit graph node
net/mlx5: fix RSS expansion for inner tunnel VLAN
net/mlx5: fix RSS expansion for L2/L3 VXLAN
net/mlx5: fix RSS expansion scheme for GRE header
net/mlx5: fix RSS expansion traversal over next nodes
net/mlx5: fix RSS expansion with EtherType
net/mlx5: fix RSS RETA update
net/mlx5: fix Rx queue memory allocation return value
net/mlx5: fix Rx queue resource cleanup
net/mlx5: fix shared RSS destruction
net/mlx5: fix software parsing support query
net/mlx5: fix tag ID conflict with sample action
net/mlx5: fix tunneling support query
net/mlx5: fix tunnel offload validation
net/mlx5: fix Tx scheduling check
net/mlx5: fix VXLAN-GPE next protocol translation
net/mlx5: remove duplicated reference of Tx doorbell
net/mlx5: support more tunnel types
net/mlx5: workaround MR creation for flow counter
net/nfp: cancel delayed LSC work in port close logic
net/nfp: fix minimum descriptor sizes
net/nfp: remove unused message length
net/octeontx2: fix MTU when PTP is enabled
net/octeontx: fix access to indirect buffers
net/octeontx: remove unused packet length
net/pcap: fix resource leakage on port probe
net/qede/base: remove unused message size
net/sfc: free MAE lock once switch domain is assigned
net/sfc: set FDIR bit for flow mark in EF100 Rx
net/sfc: update comment about representor support
net/softnic: fix useless address check
net/txgbe: fix packet statistics
net/txgbe: fix reading SFP module SFF-8472 data
net/txgbe: fix to get interrupt status
net/virtio: avoid unneeded link interrupt configuration
net/virtio: do not use PMD log type
net/virtio: fix avail descriptor ID
net/virtio: fix check scatter on all Rx queues
net/virtio: fix device configure without jumbo Rx offload
net/virtio: fix indirect descriptor reconnection
net/virtio: fix link update in speed feature
net/virtio: fix mbuf count on Rx queue setup
net/virtio: fix repeated freeing of virtqueue
net/virtio: fix split queue vectorized Rx
net/virtio: fix Tx checksum for tunnel packets
net/virtio: fix Tx cleanup functions to have same signature
net/virtio: fix Tx completed mbuf leak on device stop
net/virtio-user: fix Rx interrupts with multi-queue
net/vmxnet3: fix build with clang 13
pipeline: fix instruction label check
power: fix build with clang 13
raw/ifpga/base: fix linking with librt
raw/octeontx2_ep: remove unused variable
remove repeated ‘the’ in the code
rib: fix IPv6 depth mask
ring: fix Doxygen comment of internal function
sched: get 64-bit greatest common divisor
stack: fix reload head when pop fails
table: fix missing headers on ARM64
telemetry: fix JSON output buffer length
test/atomic: fix 128-bit atomic test with many cores
test/bpf: fix undefined behavior with clang
test/cmdline: fix memory leak
test/compress: fix buffer overflow
test/compress-perf: remove unused variable
test/crypto: fix data lengths
test/crypto: fix max length for raw data path
test/crypto: fix missing return checks
test/crypto: remove unnecessary stats retrieval
test/crypto: skip plain text compare for null cipher
test/distributor: remove unused counter
test/event_crypto: fix event crypto metadata write
test/event: fix timer adapter creation test
test: fix ring PMD initialisation
test/func_reentrancy: free memzones after test
test/hash: fix buffer overflow with jhash
test/latency: fix loop boundary
test/mbuf: fix access to freed memory
test/mem: fix memory autotests on FreeBSD
test/red: fix typo in test description
test/service: fix race in attr check
test/service: fix some comment
usertools: fix handling EOF for telemetry input pipe
usertools/pmdinfo: fix plugin auto scan
vdpa/mlx5: fix large VM memory region registration
vdpa/mlx5: fix mkey creation check
vdpa/mlx5: retry VAR allocation during vDPA restart
vdpa/mlx5: workaround dirty bitmap MR creation
vdpa/mlx5: workaround FW first completion in start
vdpa/mlx5: workaround guest MR registrations
version: 20.11.4-rc1
vfio: fix FreeBSD clear group stub
vfio: fix FreeBSD documentation
vfio: set errno on unsupported OS
vhost: add sanity check on inflight last index
vhost: clean IOTLB cache on vring stop
vhost: fix crash on port deletion
vhost: log socket path on adding connection

1.9.2. 20.11.4 Validation

Intel(R) Testing
- Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
  PF(i40e, ixgbe, ice)
  
  VF(i40e, ixgbe, ice)
  
  Compile testing
  
  Intel NIC single core/NIC performance
  
  IPsec
- Basic cryptodev and virtio testing
  Virtio function and performance
  
  Cryptodev function and performance
RedHat Testing
# Functionality
Guest(PF, VF)

Host(PF, PF)

Vswitch (throughput, live migration)

Vhost-user(server, client)

OVS-DPDK live migration
# Platform
RHEL8, kernel 4.18, qemu 6.1

X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)
Nvidia(R) Testing
- Basic functionality with testpmd
  Tx/Rx
  
  xstats
  
  Timestamps
  
  Link status
  
  RTE flow and flow_director
  
  RSS
  
  VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion
  
  Checksum/TSO
  
  ptype
  
  link_status_interrupt
  
  l3fwd-power example application
  
  Multi-process example applications
  
  Hardware LRO
- Build tests
  Ubuntu 20.04.3 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2.
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.3 with rdma-core master (c52b43e).
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.3 with rdma-core v28.0.
  
  Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core v17.1.
  
  Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core master (c52b43e) (i386).
  
  Ubuntu 16.04.7 with rdma-core v22.7.
  
  Fedora 35 with rdma-core v38.0.
  
  Fedora 36 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v38.0.
  
  CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (940f53f).
  
  CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2.
  
  CentOS 8 8.4.2105 with rdma-core master (940f53f).
  
  OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 with rdma-core v31.0.
  
  Windows Server 2019 with Clang 11.0.0
- Test platform
  ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2 / Firmware: 14.32.1010
  
  ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Kernel: 5.16.0-rc5 / Driver: rdma-core v38.0 / Firmware: 14.32.1010
  
  ConnectX-5 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2 / Firmware: 16.32.1010
  
  ConnectX-5 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Kernel: 5.16.0-rc5 / Driver: v38.0 / Firmware: 16.32.1010
  
  ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2 / Firmware: 22.32.1010

1.9.3. 20.11.4 Known Issues

# mlx5

MLX5 PMD 2% single core forwarding performance degradation. https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=916

1.10. 20.11.5 Release Notes

1.10.1. 20.11.5 Fixes

acl: add missing C++ guards
app/compress-perf: fix cycle count operations allocation
app/compress-perf: fix number of queue pairs to setup
app/compress-perf: fix socket ID type during init
app/compress-perf: optimize operations pool allocation
app/fib: fix division by zero
app/pdump: abort on multi-core capture limit
app/testpmd: check starting port is not in bonding
app/testpmd: fix bonding mode set
app/testpmd: fix build without drivers
app/testpmd: fix dereference before null check
app/testpmd: fix external buffer allocation
app/testpmd: fix GENEVE parsing in checksum mode
app/testpmd: fix show RSS RETA on Windows
app/testpmd: fix stack overflow for EEPROM display
app/testpmd: fix Tx scheduling interval
baseband/acc100: avoid out-of-bounds access
bpf: fix build with some libpcap version on FreeBSD
build: fix warning about using -Wextra flag
build: fix warnings when running external commands
build: remove deprecated Meson functions
bus/dpaa: fix C++ include guard
bus/ifpga: remove useless check while browsing devices
common/mlx5: add minimum WQE size for striding RQ
common/mlx5: add Netlink event helpers
common/mlx5: fix error handling in multi-class probe
common/mlx5: fix queue pair ack timeout configuration
common/octeontx2: update mailbox version to 0xb
compressdev: add missing C++ guards
compressdev: fix missing space in log macro
compressdev: fix socket ID type
compress/octeontx: fix null pointer dereference
config: add arch define for Arm
config/ppc: fix build with GCC >= 10
cryptodev: add backward-compatible enum
cryptodev: fix clang C++ include
cryptodev: fix RSA key type name
crypto/dpaax_sec: fix auth/cipher xform chain checks
crypto/ipsec_mb: fix ZUC authentication verify
crypto/ipsec_mb: fix ZUC operation overwrite
crypto/virtio: fix out-of-bounds access
devtools: fix comment detection in forbidden token check
distributor: fix potential overflow
dma/idxd: configure maximum batch size to high value
dma/idxd: fix paths to driver sysfs directory
doc: correct name of BlueField-2 in mlx5 guide
doc: fix dlb2 guide
doc: fix FIPS guide
doc: fix KNI PMD name typo
doc: fix missing note on UIO module in Linux guide
doc: fix typos and punctuation in flow API guide
doc: remove dependency on findutils on FreeBSD
doc: remove obsolete vector Tx explanations from mlx5 guide
doc: replace broken links in mlx guides
doc: replace characters for (R) symbol in Linux guide
doc: replace deprecated distutils version parsing
doc: update matching versions in ice guide
dpaa2: fix build with RTE_LIBRTE_IEEE1588
eal: add missing C++ guards
eal: fix C++ include
eal/freebsd: add missing C++ include guards
eal/linux: fix illegal memory access in uevent handler
eal/linux: log hugepage create errors with filename
eal/windows: fix error code for not supported API
eal/windows: remove useless C++ include guard
efd: fix uninitialized structure
ethdev: add internal function to device struct from name
ethdev: add missing C++ guards
ethdev: fix cast for C++ compatibility
ethdev: fix doxygen comments for device info struct
eventdev: add missing C++ guards
eventdev/eth_tx: fix queue add error code
eventdev: fix C++ include
examples/distributor: reduce Tx queue number to 1
examples/flow_classify: fix failure message
examples/ipsec-secgw: fix default flow rule creation
examples/ipsec-secgw: fix eventdev start sequence
examples/kni: add missing trailing newline in log
examples/l2fwd-crypto: fix port mask overflow
examples/l3fwd: fix buffer overflow in Tx
examples/l3fwd: fix Rx burst size for event mode
examples/l3fwd: make Rx and Tx queue size configurable
examples/l3fwd: share queue size variables
examples/qos_sched: fix compile failure
examples/qos_sched: fix core mask overflow
examples/vhost: fix launch with physical port
fix spelling in comments and strings
graph: fix C++ include
ipc: end multiprocess thread during cleanup
ipsec: fix C++ include
kni: add missing C++ guards
kni: fix freeing order in device release
kni: fix ioctl signature
kni: update kernel API to set random MAC address
maintainers: update for stable branches
mem: check allocation in dynamic hugepage init
metrics: add missing C++ guards
net/af_xdp: add missing trailing newline in logs
net/af_xdp: ensure socket is deleted on Rx queue setup error
net/af_xdp: fix build with -Wunused-function
net/axgbe: use PCI root complex device to distinguish device
net/bnxt: add null check for mark table
net/bnxt: cap maximum number of unicast MAC addresses
net/bnxt: check VF representor pointer before access
net/bnxt: fix check for autoneg enablement
net/bnxt: fix handling of VF configuration change
net/bnxt: fix memzone allocation per VNIC
net/bnxt: fix multicast address set
net/bnxt: fix multicast MAC restore during reset recovery
net/bnxt: fix null dereference in session cleanup
net/bnxt: fix PAM4 mask setting
net/bnxt: fix queue stop operation
net/bnxt: fix restoring VLAN filtering after recovery
net/bnxt: fix ring calculation for representors
net/bnxt: fix VF resource allocation strategy
net/bnxt: fix xstats names query overrun
net/bnxt: fix xstats query
net/bnxt: get maximum supported multicast filters count
net/bnxt: handle ring cleanup in case of error
net/bnxt: restore RSS configuration after reset recovery
net/bonding: fix mode type mismatch
net/bonding: fix offloading configuration
net/bonding: fix promiscuous and allmulticast state
net/bonding: fix reference count on mbufs
net/bonding: fix RSS with early configure
net/cxgbe: fix dangling pointer by mailbox access rework
net/cxgbe: remove useless address check
net/cxgbe: remove useless C++ include guard
net/dpaa2: fix timestamping for IEEE1588
net/dpaa2: fix unregistering interrupt handler
net/dpaa2: remove useless C++ include guard
net/ena: check memory BAR before initializing LLQ
net/ena: fix checksum flag for L4
net/ena: fix meta descriptor DF flag setup
net/ena: fix reset reason being overwritten
net/ena: remove unused enumeration
net/ena: remove unused offload variables
net/ena: skip timer if reset is triggered
net/enic: fix dereference before null check
net/hns3: delete duplicated RSS type
net/hns3: fix insecure way to query MAC statistics
net/hns3: fix max packet size rollback in PF
net/hns3: fix operating queue when TCAM table is invalid
net/hns3: fix RSS key with null
net/hns3: fix RSS TC mode entry
net/hns3: fix using enum as boolean
net/hns3: fix VF RSS TC mode entry
net/hns3: increase time waiting for PF reset completion
net/hns3: remove duplicate macro definition
net/i40e: enable maximum frame size at port level
net/i40e: fix unintentional integer overflow
net/iavf: count continuous DD bits for Arm
net/iavf: count continuous DD bits for Arm in flex Rx
net/iavf: fix function pointer in multi-process
net/iavf: fix potential out-of-bounds access
net/ice/base: add profile validation on switch filter
net/ice: fix build with 16-byte Rx descriptor
net/ice: fix link up when starting device
net/ice: fix overwriting of LSE bit by DCF
net/ice: fix Tx checksum offload
net/ice: fix Tx checksum offload capability
net/ice: fix Tx offload path choice
net/ice: track DCF state of PF
net/ixgbe: add vector Rx parameter check
net/ixgbe: check filter init failure
net/ixgbe: fix FSP check for X550EM devices
net/ixgbe: reset security context pointer on close
net/kni: fix config initialization
net/memif: remove pointer deference before null check
net/memif: remove unnecessary Rx interrupt stub
net/mlx5: fix assertion on flags set in packet mbuf
net/mlx5: fix committed bucket size
net/mlx5: fix GRE item translation in Verbs
net/mlx5: fix GRE protocol type translation for Verbs
net/mlx5: fix ineffective metadata argument adjustment
net/mlx5: fix inet IPIP protocol type
net/mlx5: fix initial link status detection
net/mlx5: fix inline length for multi-segment TSO
net/mlx5: fix link status change detection
net/mlx5: fix mark enabling for Rx
net/mlx5: fix matcher priority with ICMP or ICMPv6
net/mlx5: fix maximum packet headers size for TSO
net/mlx5: fix memory socket selection in ASO management
net/mlx5: fix modify port action validation
net/mlx5: fix MPLS/GRE Verbs spec ordering
net/mlx5: fix MPRQ stride devargs adjustment
net/mlx5: fix next protocol RSS expansion
net/mlx5: fix NIC egress flow mismatch in switchdev mode
net/mlx5: fix port matching in sample flow rule
net/mlx5: fix RSS expansion with explicit next protocol
net/mlx5: fix sample flow action on trusted device
net/mlx5: fix shared RSS destroy
net/mlx5: fix sibling device config check
net/mlx5: improve stride parameter names
net/mlx5: reject jump to root table
net/mlx5: relax headroom assertion
net/mlx5: remove unused reference counter
net/mlx5: workaround ASO memory region creation
net/nfb: fix array indexes in deinit functions
net/nfb: fix multicast/promiscuous mode switching
net/nfp: free HW rings memzone on queue release
net/nfp: remove duplicated check when setting MAC address
net/nfp: remove useless range checks
net/octeontx2:: fix base rule merge
net/octeontx2: fix flow MCAM priority management
net/qede: fix redundant condition in debug code
net/qede: fix Rx bulk mbuf allocation
net/sfc: demand Tx fast free offload on EF10 simple datapath
net/sfc: do not push fast free offload to default TxQ config
net/sfc: validate queue span when parsing flow action RSS
net/tap: fix to populate FDs in secondary process
net/txgbe: fix debug logs
net/txgbe: fix queue statistics mapping
net/virtio: fix Tx queue 0 overriden by queue 128
net/virtio-user: check FD flags getting failure
net/virtio-user: fix resource leak on probing failure
pmdinfogen: fix compilation with Clang 3.4.2 on CentOS 7
raw/ifpga/base: fix port feature ID
raw/ifpga/base: fix SPI transaction
raw/ifpga: fix build with optimization
raw/ifpga: fix interrupt handle allocation
raw/ifpga: fix monitor thread
raw/ifpga: fix thread closing
raw/ifpga: fix variable initialization in probing
raw/ntb: clear all valid doorbell bits on init
regexdev: fix section attribute of symbols
regex/mlx5: fix memory allocation check
Revert “regexdev: fix section attribute of symbols”
ring: fix error code when creating ring
ring: fix overflow in memory size calculation
ring: optimize corner case for enqueue/dequeue
stack: fix stubs header export
table: fix C++ include
telemetry: add missing C++ guards
test/efd: fix sockets mask size
test/mbuf: fix mbuf data content check
test/mem: fix error check
vdpa/ifc: fix log info mismatch
vdpa/mlx5: workaround queue stop with traffic
version: 20.11.5-rc1
vfio: cleanup the multiprocess sync handle
vhost: add missing C++ guards
vhost: fix C++ include
vhost: fix FD leak with inflight messages
vhost: fix field naming in guest page struct
vhost: fix guest to host physical address mapping
vhost: fix queue number check when setting inflight FD
vhost: fix unsafe vring addresses modifications

1.10.2. 20.11.5 Validation

Red Hat(R) Testing
- Platform
  RHEL 8
  
  Kernel 4.18
  
  Qemu 6.2
  
  X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)
- Functionality
  Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size)
  
  Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size)
  
  Guest with device assignment(VF) throughput testing
  
  PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing
  
  PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing
  
  PVP vhost-user 1Q cross numa node throughput testing
  
  Guest with vhost-user 2 queues throughput testing
  
  vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: qemu reconnect
  
  vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: ovs reconnect
  
  PVP 1Q live migration testing
  
  PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M)
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing
  
  Host PF + DPDK testing
  
  Host VF + DPDK testing
Intel(R) Testing
- Basic Intel(R) NIC(ixgbe, i40e and ice) testing
  
  PF (i40e)
  
  PF (ixgbe)
  
  PF (ice)
  
  VF (i40e)
  
  VF (ixgbe)
  
  VF (ice)
  
  Compile Testing
  
  Intel NIC single core/NIC performance
  
  Power and IPsec
- Basic cryptodev and virtio testing
  vhost/virtio basic loopback, PVP and performance test
  
  cryptodev Function/Performance
Nvidia(R) Testing
- Basic functionality with testpmd
  Tx/Rx
  
  xstats
  
  Timestamps
  
  Link status
  
  RTE flow and flow_director
  
  RSS
  
  VLAN stripping and insertion
  
  Checksum/TSO
  
  ptype
  
  link_status_interrupt example application
  
  l3fwd-power example application
  
  Multi-process example applications
  
  Hardware LRO tests
- Build tests
  Ubuntu 20.04.2 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.4-1.0.3.0.
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.2 with rdma-core master (64d1ae5).
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.2 with rdma-core v28.0.
  
  Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core v17.1.
  
  Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core master (5b0f5b2) (i386).
  
  Ubuntu 16.04.7 with rdma-core v22.7.
  
  Fedora 34 with rdma-core v36.0.
  
  Fedora 36 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v36.0 (only with gcc).
  
  CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (64d1ae5).
  
  CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.4-1.0.3.0.
  
  CentOS 8 8.3.2011 with rdma-core master (64d1ae5).
  
  OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 with rdma-core v31.0.
- ConnectX-6 Dx
  Ubuntu 20.04
  
  Driver MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2
  
  fw 22.32.2004
- ConnectX-5
  Ubuntu 20.04
  
  Driver MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2
  
  Kernel: 5.17.0 / Driver: rdma-core v39.0
  
  fw 16.32.1010
- ConnectX-4 Lx
  Ubuntu 20.04
  
  Driver MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2
  
  Kernel: 5.17.0 / Driver: rdma-core v39.0
  
  fw 14.32.1010
Canonical(R) Testing
- Build tests of DPDK & OVS 2.15.0 on Ubuntu 21.10 (meson based)
- Functional and performance tests based on OVS-DPDK on x86_64
- Autopkgtests for DPDK and OpenvSwitch

1.10.3. 20.11.5 Known Issues

vhost/virtio
- build failure with gcc 12: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925

1.11. 20.11.6 Release Notes

1.11.1. 20.11.6 Fixes

acl: fix rules with 8-byte field size
app/flow-perf: fix build with GCC 12
app/procinfo: show all non-owned ports
app/testpmd: check statistics query before printing
app/testpmd: do not poll stopped queues
app/testpmd: fix bonding slave devices not released
app/testpmd: fix metering and policing command for RFC4115
app/testpmd: fix multicast address pool leak
app/testpmd: fix packet segment allocation
app/testpmd: fix port status of bonding slave device
app/testpmd: fix supported RSS offload display
app/testpmd: perform SW IP checksum for GRO/GSO packets
app/testpmd: remove useless pointer checks
app/testpmd: replace hardcoded min mbuf number with macro
app/testpmd: revert MAC update in checksum forwarding
baseband/acc100: add protection for some negative scenario
baseband/acc100: remove prefix of internal file
baseband/acc100: remove RTE prefix for internal macros
baseband/acc100: update companion PF configure function
bus/fslmc: fix VFIO setup
ci: enable C++ check for Arm and PPC
common/cpt: fix build with GCC 12
common/dpaax: fix short MAC-I IV calculation for ZUC
config: fix C++ cross compiler for Arm and PPC
crypto/dpaa2_sec: fix buffer pool ID check
crypto/dpaa2_sec: fix crypto operation pointer
crypto/dpaa2_sec: fix fle buffer leak
crypto/dpaa2_sec: fix operation status for simple FD
crypto/dpaa_sec: fix digest size
crypto/dpaa_sec: fix secondary process probing
crypto/ipsec_mb: fix GMAC parameters setting
crypto/ipsec_mb: fix length and offset settings
crypto/qat: fix DOCSIS crash
crypto/scheduler: fix queue pair in scheduler failover
devtools: fix null test for NUMA systems
doc: add missing auth algo for IPsec example
doc: add more instructions for running as non-root
doc: fix API index Markdown syntax
doc: fix formatting and link in BPF library guide
doc: fix grammar and formatting in compressdev guide
doc: fix grammar and parameters in l2fwd-crypto guide
doc: fix readability in vhost guide
doc: fix vhost multi-queue reconnection
doc: update matching versions in i40e guide
doc: update matching versions in ice guide
drivers/crypto: fix warnings for OpenSSL version
eal: fix C++ include for device event and DMA
eal/freebsd: fix use of newer cpuset macros
eal/windows: add missing C++ include guards
eal/windows: fix data race when creating threads
eal/x86: drop export of internal alignment macro
eal/x86: fix unaligned access for small memcpy
ethdev: clarify null location case in xstats get
ethdev: fix memory leak in xstats telemetry
ethdev: fix port close in secondary process
ethdev: fix port state when stop
ethdev: fix possible null pointer access
ethdev: fix RSS update when RSS is disabled
ethdev: prohibit polling stopped queue
eventdev/eth_tx: fix adapter creation
eventdev/eth_tx: fix queue delete
examples/bond: fix invalid use of trylock
examples/distributor: fix distributor on Rx core
examples/dma: fix Tx drop statistics
examples/fips_validation: handle empty payload
examples/ipsec-secgw: fix promiscuous mode option
examples/ipsec-secgw: fix uninitialized memory access
examples/l2fwd-crypto: fix stats refresh rate
examples/l3fwd: fix scalar LPM
examples/link_status_interrupt: fix stats refresh rate
examples/vhost: fix crash when no VMDq
gro: fix identifying fragmented packets
kni: fix build
kni: fix build with Linux 5.18
kni: use dedicated function to set MAC address
kni: use dedicated function to set random MAC address
malloc: fix allocation of almost hugepage size
mbuf: dump outer VLAN
mem: skip attaching external memory in secondary process
net/axgbe: fix xstats get return if xstats is null
net/bnxt: allow Tx only or Rx only
net/bnxt: avoid unnecessary endianness conversion
net/bnxt: fix compatibility with some old firmwares
net/bnxt: fix device capability reporting
net/bnxt: fix freeing VNIC filters
net/bnxt: fix link status when port is stopped
net/bnxt: fix reordering in NEON Rx
net/bnxt: fix ring group on Rx restart
net/bnxt: fix Rx configuration
net/bnxt: fix setting forced speed
net/bnxt: fix speed autonegotiation
net/bnxt: fix switch domain allocation
net/bnxt: fix tunnel stateless offloads
net/bnxt: force PHY update on certain configurations
net/bnxt: recheck FW readiness if in reset process
net/bnxt: remove unused macro
net/bonding: fix mbuf fast free usage
net/bonding: fix RSS inconsistency between ports
net/bonding: fix RSS key config with extended key length
net/bonding: fix slave stop and remove on port close
net/bonding: fix stopping non-active slaves
net/cxgbe: fix port ID in Rx mbuf
net/cxgbe: fix Tx queue stuck with mbuf chain coalescing
net/dpaa: fix event queue detach
net/hns3: fix an unreasonable memset
net/hns3: fix descriptors check with SVE
net/hns3: fix return value for unsupported tuple
net/hns3: fix rollback on RSS hash update
net/hns3: fix RSS disable
net/hns3: fix xstats get return if xstats is null
net/hns3: remove duplicate definition
net/hns3: remove redundant RSS tuple field
net/hns3: remove unnecessary RSS switch
net/hns3: support backplane media type
net/i40e: fix max frame size config at port level
net/i40e: populate error in flow director parser
net/iavf: fix data path selection
net/iavf: fix HW ring scan method selection
net/iavf: fix mbuf release in multi-process
net/iavf: fix queue start exception handling
net/iavf: fix Rx queue interrupt setting
net/iavf: increase reset complete wait count
net/ice/base: fix build with GCC 12
net/ice/base: fix getting sched node from ID type
net/ice: fix build with GCC 12
net/ice: fix MTU info for DCF
net/ice: fix outer L4 checksum in scalar Rx
net/igc: support multi-process
net/ipn3ke: fix xstats get return if xstats is null
net/ixgbe: add option for link up check on pin SDP3
net/memif: fix overwriting of head segment
net/mlx5: destroy indirect actions on port stop
net/mlx5: fix build with clang 14
net/mlx5: fix GTP handling in header modify action
net/mlx5: fix LRO validation in Rx setup
net/mlx5: fix MPRQ pool registration
net/mlx5: fix RSS expansion for patterns with ICMP item
net/mlx5: fix RSS hash types adjustment
net/mlx5: fix Rx queue recovery mechanism
net/mlx5: fix Rx/Tx stats concurrency
net/mlx5: fix stack buffer overflow in drop action
net/mlx5: fix Tx recovery
net/mlx5: fix Tx when inlining is impossible
net/mlx5: handle MPRQ incompatibility with external buffers
net/mlx5/linux: fix missed Rx packet stats
net/mvpp2: fix xstats get return if xstats is null
net/netvsc: fix calculation of checksums based on mbuf flag
net/netvsc: fix vmbus device reference in multi-process
net/nfp: fix disabling VLAN stripping
net/nfp: remove unneeded header inclusion
net/octeontx: fix port close
net/qede: fix build with GCC 12
net/qede: fix build with GCC 13
net/txgbe: fix max number of queues for SR-IOV
net/txgbe: fix register polling
net/vhost: fix access to freed memory
net/vhost: fix deadlock on vring state change
net/vhost: fix TSO feature default disablement
net/virtio: restore some optimisations with AVX512
net/virtio-user: fix socket non-blocking mode
raw/ifpga: remove virtual devices on close
raw/ifpga: unregister interrupt on close
raw/ioat: fix build when ioat dmadev enabled
rib: fix references for IPv6 implementation
rib: fix traversal with /32 route
service: fix lingering active status
test: avoid hang if queues are full and Tx fails
test/bonding: fix RSS test when disable RSS
test: check memory allocation for CRC
test/crypto: fix authentication IV for ZUC SGL
test/crypto: fix cipher offset for ZUC
test/crypto: fix null check for ZUC authentication
test/crypto: fix SNOW3G vector IV format
test/crypto: fix ZUC vector IV format
test/hash: fix out of bound access
test/hash: report non HTM numbers for single thread
test/ipsec: fix build with GCC 12
test/ipsec: fix performance test
test/ring: remove excessive inlining
test/table: fix buffer overflow on lpm entry
trace: fix init with long file prefix
vdpa/ifc: fix build with GCC 12
vdpa/mlx5: fix dead loop when process interrupted
vdpa/mlx5: fix interrupt trash that leads to crash
vdpa/mlx5: fix maximum number of virtqs
vdpa/mlx5: workaround var offset within page
version: 20.11.6-rc1
vhost: add some trailing newline in log messages
vhost/crypto: fix build with GCC 12
vhost/crypto: fix descriptor processing
vhost: discard too small descriptor chains
vhost: fix async access
vhost: fix deadlock when message handling failed
vhost: fix header spanned across more than two descriptors
vhost: fix missing enqueue pseudo-header calculation
vhost: fix missing virtqueue lock protection
vhost: prevent async register

1.11.2. 20.11.6 Validation

Intel(R) Testing
- Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
  PF(i40e, ixgbe, ice)
  
  VF(i40e, ixgbe, ice)
  
  Compile testing
  
  Intel NIC single core/NIC performance
  
  IPsec
- Basic cryptodev and virtio testing
  Virtio function and performance
  
  Cryptodev function and performance
RedHat Testing
# Functionality
Guest(PF, VF)

Host

Vswitch (throughput, live migration)

Vhost-user(server, client)

OVS-DPDK live migration
# Platform
RHEL8, kernel 4.18, qemu 6.2

X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)
Nvidia(R) Testing
- Basic functionality with testpmd
  Tx/Rx
  
  xstats
  
  Timestamps
  
  Link status
  
  RTE flow and flow_director
  
  RSS
  
  VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion
  
  Checksum/TSO
  
  ptype
  
  link_status_interrupt
  
  l3fwd-power example application
  
  Multi-process example applications
  
  Hardware LRO
- Build tests
  Ubuntu 20.04.4 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.7-1.0.2.0.
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.4 with rdma-core master (23a0021).
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.4 with rdma-core v28.0.
  
  Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core v17.1.
  
  Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core master (23a0021) (i386).
  
  Ubuntu 16.04.7 with rdma-core v22.7.
  
  Fedora 35 with rdma-core v39.0.
  
  Fedora 37 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v39.0 (with clang only).
  
  CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (23a0021).
  
  CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.7-1.0.2.0.
  
  CentOS 8 8.4.2105 with rdma-core master (23a0021).
  
  OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 with rdma-core v38.1.
  
  Windows Server 2019 with Clang 11.0.0.
- Test platform
  NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.7-1.0.2.0 / Firmware: 14.32.1010
  
  NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.7-1.0.2.0 / Firmware: 16.34.1002
  
  NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.7-1.0.2.0 / Firmware: 22.34.1002
  
  DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 1.4.0

1.11.3. 20.11.6 Known Issues

1.12. 20.11.7 Release Notes

1.12.1. 20.11.7 Fixes

app/testpmd: fix build with clang 15
app/testpmd: fix build with clang 15 in flow code
app/testpmd: fix MAC header in checksum forward engine
app/testpmd: make quit flag volatile
app/testpmd: restore ixgbe bypass commands
baseband/acc100: add LDPC encoder padding function
baseband/acc100: add null checks
baseband/acc100: check turbo dec/enc input
baseband/acc100: fix clearing PF IR outside handler
baseband/acc100: fix close cleanup
baseband/acc100: fix device minimum alignment
baseband/acc100: fix input error related to padding
baseband/acc100: fix input length for CRC24B
baseband/acc100: fix memory leak
baseband/acc100: fix ring/queue allocation
bus/dpaa: fix build with clang 15
ci: bump versions of actions in GHA
ci: update to new API for step outputs in GHA
common/iavf: avoid copy in async mode
common/sfc_efx/base: fix maximum Tx data count
cryptodev: fix unduly newlines in logs
crypto/ipsec_mb: fix build with GCC 12
crypto/qat: fix build with GCC 12
crypto/qat: fix null hash algorithm digest size
devtools: fix checkpatch header retrieval from stdin
doc: add LRO size limitation in mlx5 guide
doc: avoid meson deprecation in setup
doc: fix application name in procinfo guide
doc: fix colons in testpmd aged flow rules
doc: fix event timer adapter guide
doc: fix maximum packet size of virtio driver
doc: fix net drivers ordering
doc: fix typo depreciated instead of deprecated
doc: fix underlines in testpmd guide
drivers: fix typos found by Lintian
eal: fix data race in multi-process support
eal: fix doxygen comments for UUID
eal: fix side effect in some pointer arithmetic macros
eal/x86: add 256 bytes copy for AVX2
eventdev/crypto: fix multi-process
eventdev/eth_tx: add spinlock for adapter start/stop
eventdev/eth_tx: fix adapter stop
eventdev/eth_tx: fix queue delete
eventdev: fix name of Rx conf type in documentation
event/dlb2: handle enqueuing more than maximum depth
event/dsw: fix flow migration
event/sw: fix device name in dump
event/sw: fix flow ID init in self test
event/sw: fix log in self test
examples/fips_validation: fix typo in error log
examples/ipsec-secgw: fix Tx checksum offload flag
examples/ipsec-secgw: fix Tx checksum offload flag
examples/ipsec-secgw: use Tx checksum offload conditionally
examples/l2fwd-crypto: fix typo in error message
examples/performance-thread: fix build with GCC 12
examples/qos_sched: fix number of subport profiles
examples/vhost: fix use after free
examples/vm_power_manager: use safe list iterator
graph: fix node objects allocation
gro: check payload length after trim
gro: fix chain index for more than 2 packets
gro: trim tail padding bytes
hash: fix RCU configuration memory leak
ipsec: fix build with GCC 12
license: fix paths
malloc: fix storage size for some allocations
mem: fix API doc about allocation on secondary processes
mempool: fix get objects from mempool with cache
net: accept unaligned data in checksum routines
net/atlantic: fix build with clang 15
net/axgbe: clear buffer on scattered Rx chaining failure
net/axgbe: fix checksum and RSS in scattered Rx
net/axgbe: fix length of each segment in scattered Rx
net/axgbe: fix mbuf lengths in scattered Rx
net/axgbe: fix scattered Rx
net/axgbe: optimise scattered Rx
net/axgbe: remove freeing buffer in scattered Rx
net/axgbe: reset end of packet in scattered Rx
net/axgbe: save segment data in scattered Rx
net/bnxt: fix build with GCC 13
net/bnxt: fix null pointer dereference in LED config
net/bnxt: fix representor info freeing
net/bnxt: remove unnecessary check
net/bonding: fix array overflow in Rx burst
net/bonding: fix descriptor limit reporting
net/bonding: fix double slave link status query
net/bonding: fix dropping valid MAC packets
net/bonding: fix flow flush order on close
net/bonding: fix mbuf fast free handling
net/bonding: fix mode 4 with dedicated queues
net/bonding: fix slave device Rx/Tx offload configuration
net/bonding: fix Tx hash for TCP
net/bonding: set initial value of descriptor count alignment
net/dpaa: fix buffer freeing in slow path
net/dpaa: fix jumbo packet Rx in case of VSP
net/ena: fix build with GCC 12
net/ena: remove useless address check
net/hns3: add L3 and L4 RSS types
net/hns3: delete unused markup
net/hns3: extract functions to create RSS and FDIR flow rule
net/hns3: fix build with gcov
net/hns3: fix clearing hardware MAC statistics
net/hns3: fix code check warnings
net/hns3: fix crash when secondary process access FW
net/hns3: fix header files includes
net/hns3: fix IPv4 and IPv6 RSS
net/hns3: fix IPv4 RSS
net/hns3: fix lock protection of RSS flow rule
net/hns3: fix minimum Tx frame length
net/hns3: fix next-to-use overflow in simple Tx
net/hns3: fix next-to-use overflow in SVE Tx
net/hns3: fix packet type for GENEVE
net/hns3: fix restore filter function input
net/hns3: fix RSS filter restore
net/hns3: fix RSS flow rule restore
net/hns3: fix RSS rule restore
net/hns3: fix typos in IPv6 SCTP fields
net/hns3: fix VF mailbox message handling
net/hns3: move flow direction rule recovery
net/hns3: optimize SVE Tx performance
net/hns3: revert fix mailbox communication with HW
net/i40e: fix jumbo frame Rx with X722
net/i40e: fix VF representor release
net/iavf: add thread for event callbacks
net/iavf: check illegal packet sizes
net/iavf: fix outer checksum flags
net/iavf: fix pattern check for flow director parser
net/iavf: fix queue stop for large VF
net/iavf: fix tainted scalar
net/iavf: fix Tx done descriptors cleanup
net/ice/base: fix add MAC rule
net/ice/base: fix array overflow in add switch recipe
net/ice/base: fix duplicate flow rules
net/ice/base: fix media type of PHY 10G SFI C2C
net/ice/base: ignore promiscuous already exist
net/ice: check illegal packet sizes
net/ice: fix null function pointer call
net/ice: fix RSS hash update
net/ice: fix scalar Rx path segment
net/ice: fix scalar Tx path segment
net/igc: remove unnecessary PHY ID checks
net/ionic: fix adapter name for logging
net/ionic: fix endianness for RSS
net/ionic: fix endianness for Rx and Tx
net/ionic: fix reported error stats
net/ixgbe: fix broadcast Rx on VF after promisc removal
net/ixgbe: fix unexpected VLAN Rx in promisc mode on VF
net/ixgbevf: fix promiscuous and allmulti
net/memif: fix crash with different number of Rx/Tx queues
net/mlx4: fix Verbs FD leak in secondary process
net/mlx5: fix check for orphan wait descriptor
net/mlx5: fix drop action validation
net/mlx5: fix first segment inline length
net/mlx5: fix hairpin split with set VLAN VID action
net/mlx5: fix inline length exceeding descriptor limit
net/mlx5: fix maximum LRO message size
net/mlx5: fix meter profile delete after disable
net/mlx5: fix modify action with tunnel decapsulation
net/mlx5: fix port closing
net/mlx5: fix port event cleaning order
net/mlx5: fix port initialization with small LRO
net/mlx5: fix race condition in counter pool resizing
net/mlx5: fix RSS expansion buffer size
net/mlx5: fix single not inline packet storing
net/mlx5: fix thread workspace memory leak
net/mlx5: fix tunnel header with IPIP offload
net/mlx5: fix Tx check for hardware descriptor length
net/mlx5: fix Verbs FD leak in secondary process
net/mvneta: fix build with GCC 12
net/nfp: fix memory leak in Rx
net/nfp: fix Rx descriptor DMA address
net/nfp: improve HW info header log readability
net/qede/base: fix 32-bit build with GCC 12
net/qede: fix minsize build
net/tap: fix overflow of network interface index
net/txgbe: remove semaphore between SW/FW
net/txgbe: rename some extended statistics
net/virtio: fix crash when configured twice
net/virtio: remove declaration of undefined function
node: check Rx element allocation
pdump: do not allow enable/disable in primary process
power: fix some doxygen comments
Revert “build: fix warnings when running external commands”
Revert “mempool: fix get objects from mempool with cache”
ring: fix description
ring: remove leftover comment about watermark
sched: fix subport profile configuration
service: fix build with clang 15
service: fix early move to inactive status
service: fix stats race condition for MT safe service
telemetry: fix escaping of invalid json characters
test/crypto: fix bitwise operator in a SNOW3G case
test/crypto: fix debug messages
test/crypto: fix PDCP vectors
test/crypto: fix wireless auth digest segment
test/efd: fix build with clang 15
test/event: fix build with clang 15
test/hash: fix bulk lookup check
test/hash: remove dead code in extendable bucket test
test/ipsec: fix build with GCC 12
test/ipsec: skip if no compatible device
test/member: fix build with clang 15
test/service: fix spurious failures by extending timeout
timer: fix stopping all timers
trace: fix dynamically enabling trace points
trace: fix leak with regexp
trace: fix metadata dump
trace: fix mode change
trace: fix mode for new trace point
trace: fix race in debug dump
vdpa/ifc: handle data path update failure
version: 20.11.7-rc1
vhost: add non-blocking API for posting interrupt
vhost: fix virtqueue use after free on NUMA reallocation

1.12.2. 20.11.7 Validation

Intel(R) Testing
- Basic Intel(R) NIC(ixgbe, i40e and ice) testing
  
  PF (i40e/ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
  
  VF (i40e/ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
  
  PF/VF (ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
  
  Compile Testing
  
  Intel NIC single core/NIC performance
  
  Power and IPsec
- Basic cryptodev and virtio testing
  vhost/virtio basic loopback, PVP and performance test
  
  cryptodev Function/Performance: Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
Red Hat(R) Testing
- Platform
  RHEL 8
  
  Kernel 4.18
  
  Qemu 6.2
  
  X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)
- Functionality
  Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size)
  
  Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size)
  
  Guest with device assignment(VF) throughput testing
  
  PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing
  
  PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing
  
  PVP vhost-user 1Q cross numa node throughput testing
  
  Guest with vhost-user 2 queues throughput testing
  
  vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: qemu reconnect
  
  vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: ovs reconnect
  
  PVP 1Q live migration testing
  
  PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M)
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing
  
  Host PF + DPDK testing
  
  Host VF + DPDK testing
Nvidia(R) Testing
- Basic functionality via testpmd/example applications
  Tx/Rx
  
  xstats
  
  Timestamps
  
  Link status
  
  RTE flow and flow_director
  
  RSS
  
  VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion
  
  Checksum/TSO
  
  ptype
  
  link_status_interrupt example application
  
  l3fwd-power example application
  
  Multi-process example applications
  
  Hardware LRO tests
- Build tests
  Ubuntu 20.04.1 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-1.1.2.1.
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.5 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-1.1.2.1.
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.5 with rdma-core master (76cfaa1).
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.5 with rdma-core v28.0.
  
  Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core v17.1.
  
  Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core master (76cfaa1) (i386).
  
  Ubuntu 16.04.7 with rdma-core v22.7.
  
  Fedora 37 with rdma-core v41.0.
  
  Fedora 38 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v41.0.
  
  CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (76cfaa1).
  
  CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-1.0.1.1.
  
  CentOS 8 8.4.2105 with rdma-core master (76cfaa1).
  
  OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 with rdma-core v38.1.
  
  Windows Server 2019 with Clang 11.0.0.
- BlueField-2
  DOCA 1.5.0
  
  fw 24.35.1012
- ConnectX-6 Dx
  Ubuntu 20.04
  
  Driver MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-1.0.1.1
  
  fw 22.35.1012
- ConnectX-5
  Ubuntu 20.04
  
  Driver MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-1.0.1.1
  
  fw 16.35.1012
- ConnectX-4 Lx
  Ubuntu 20.04
  
  Driver MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-1.0.1.1
  
  fw 14.32.1010

1.12.3. 20.11.7 Known Issues

net/iavf
- vf_interrupt_pmd/nic_interrupt_VF_vfio_pci: l3fwd-power Wake up failed on X722 37d0

1.13. 20.11.8 Release Notes

1.13.1. 20.11.8 Fixes

acl: fix crash on PPC64 with GCC 11
app/bbdev: add allocation checks
app/bbdev: check statistics failure
app/compress-perf: fix remaining data for ops
app/compress-perf: fix some typos
app/compress-perf: fix testing single operation
app/crypto-perf: fix number of segments
app/crypto-perf: fix test file memory leak
app/flow-perf: fix division or module by zero
app/testpmd: cleanup cleanly from signal
app/testpmd: fix crash on cleanup
app/testpmd: fix encap/decap size calculation
app/testpmd: fix forwarding stats for Tx dropped
app/testpmd: fix interactive mode on Windows
app/testpmd: fix interactive mode with no ports
app/testpmd: fix packet count in IEEE 1588 engine
app/testpmd: fix packet transmission in noisy VNF engine
app/testpmd: fix Tx preparation in checksum engine
baseband/acc: fix acc100 iteration counter in TB
baseband/acc: fix memory leak on acc100 close
build: fix dependencies lookup
build: fix toolchain definition
bus/ifpga: fix devargs handling
ci: switch to Ubuntu 20.04
cmdline: handle EOF as quit
common/mlx5: use just sufficient barrier for Arm
compressdev: fix empty devargs parsing
compressdev: fix end of driver list
crypto/ccp: remove some printf
cryptodev: fix empty devargs parsing
crypto/qat: fix stream cipher direction
crypto/snow3g: fix snow3g enqueue stat increment
devtools: fix escaped space in grep pattern
doc: add Linux capability to access physical addresses
doc: fix code blocks in cryptodev guide
doc: fix dependency setup in l2fwd-cat example guide
doc: fix pipeline example path in user guide
doc: fix reference to event timer header
eal/freebsd: fix lock in alarm callback
eal: use same atomic intrinsics for GCC and clang
eal/windows: fix pedantic build
eal/windows: mark memory config as complete
eventdev/eth_tx: fix devices loop
eventdev/timer: fix overflow
examples/cmdline: fix build with GCC 12
examples/qos_sched: fix config entries in wrong sections
examples/qos_sched: fix debug mode
examples/qos_sched: fix Tx port config when link down
examples/vm_power_manager: revert backported commit
fbarray: fix metadata dump
graph: fix node shrink
kni: fix build on RHEL 9.1
kni: fix possible starvation when mbufs are exhausted
kvargs: add API documentation for process callback
lib: remove empty return types from doxygen comments
mem: fix hugepage info mapping
mempool: fix get objects from mempool with cache
net/bnxt: fix link state change interrupt config
net/bnxt: fix RSS hash in mbuf
net/bnxt: fix Rx queue stats after queue stop and start
net/bnxt: fix Tx queue stats after queue stop and start
net/e1000: fix saving of stripped VLAN TCI
net/hns3: add verification of RSS types
net/hns3: allow adding queue buffer size hash rule
net/hns3: extract common functions to set Rx/Tx
net/hns3: fix burst mode query with dummy function
net/hns3: fix clearing RSS configuration
net/hns3: fix config struct used for conversion
net/hns3: fix duplicate RSS rule check
net/hns3: fix log about indirection table size
net/hns3: fix possible truncation of hash key when config
net/hns3: fix possible truncation of redirection table
net/hns3: fix RSS key size compatibility
net/hns3: fix warning on flush or destroy rule
net/hns3: refactor set RSS hash algorithm and key interface
net/hns3: reimplement hash flow function
net/hns3: remove useless code when destroy valid RSS rule
net/hns3: save hash algo to RSS filter list node
net/hns3: separate flow RSS config from RSS conf
net/hns3: separate setting and clearing RSS rule
net/hns3: separate setting hash algorithm
net/hns3: separate setting hash key
net/hns3: separate setting redirection table
net/hns3: separate setting RSS types
net/hns3: use hardware config to report hash key
net/hns3: use hardware config to report hash types
net/hns3: use hardware config to report redirection table
net/hns3: use new RSS rule to configure hardware
net/hns3: use RSS filter list to check duplicated rule
net/i40e: fix MAC loopback on X722
net/i40e: fix validation of flow transfer attribute
net/i40e: reduce interrupt interval in multi-driver mode
net/i40e: revert link status check on device start
net/iavf: add lock for VF commands
net/iavf: fix device stop during reset
net/iavf: protect insertion in flow list
net/ice: fix validation of flow transfer attribute
net/ipn3ke: fix representor name
net/ipn3ke: fix thread exit
net/ixgbe: enable IPv6 mask in flow rules
net/ixgbe: fix firmware version consistency
net/ixgbe: fix IPv6 mask in flow director
net/mlx5: check compressed CQE opcode in vectorized Rx
net/mlx5: fix build with GCC 12 and ASan
net/mlx5: fix CQE dump for Tx
net/mlx5: fix error CQE dumping for vectorized Rx
net/mlx5: fix flow sample with ConnectX-5
net/mlx5: fix hairpin Tx queue reference count
net/mlx5: fix sysfs port name translation
net/mlx5: ignore non-critical syndromes for Rx queue
net/nfp: fix firmware name derived from PCI name
net/nfp: fix getting RSS configuration
net/nfp: fix MTU configuration order
net/sfc: enforce fate action in transfer flow rules
net/txgbe: fix default signal quality value for KX/KX4
net/txgbe: fix interrupt loss
net/txgbe: fix packet type to parse from offload flags
net/txgbe: fix Rx buffer size in config register
net/vhost: add missing newline in logs
net/vhost: fix Rx interrupt
net/virtio: deduce IP length for TSO checksum
net/virtio: fix empty devargs parsing
net/virtio: remove address width limit for modern devices
net/virtio-user: fix device starting failure handling
pdump: fix build with GCC 12
raw/ifpga/base: fix init with multi-process
raw/skeleton: fix empty devargs parsing
raw/skeleton: fix selftest
reorder: fix sequence number mbuf field register
reorder: invalidate buffer from ready queue in drain
ring: silence GCC 12 warnings
telemetry: fix repeat display when callback don’t init dict
test/bbdev: extend HARQ tolerance
test/bbdev: fix crash for non supported HARQ length
test/bbdev: remove check for invalid opaque data
test/crypto: add missing MAC-I to PDCP vectors
test/crypto: fix statistics error messages
test: fix segment length in packet generator
test/mbuf: fix mbuf reset test
test/mbuf: fix test with mbuf debug enabled
test/reorder: fix double free of drained buffers
vdpa/ifc: fix argument compatibility check
vdpa/ifc: fix reconnection in SW-assisted live migration
version: 20.11.8-rc1
vhost: decrease log level for unimplemented requests
vhost: fix doxygen warnings
vhost: fix net header settings in datapath
vhost: fix OOB access for invalid vhost ID
vhost: fix possible FD leaks
vhost: fix possible FD leaks on truncation

1.13.2. 20.11.8 Validation

Intel(R) Testing
- Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
  
  Build & CFLAG compile: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Fedora36, RHEL8.4, etc.
  
  PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
  
  VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
  
  PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
  
  Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, etc.
  
  IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- 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.
  
  Cryptodev:
  
  Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
  
  Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance/Cryptodev Latency, etc.
Nvidia(R) Testing
- Basic functionality via testpmd/example applications
  Tx/Rx
  
  xstats
  
  Timestamps
  
  Link status
  
  RTE flow and flow_director
  
  RSS
  
  VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion
  
  Checksum/TSO
  
  ptype
  
  link_status_interrupt example application
  
  l3fwd-power example application
  
  Multi-process example applications
  
  Hardware LRO tests
- Build tests
  Ubuntu 20.04.5 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.9-0.5.6.0.
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.5 with rdma-core master (f0a079f).
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.5 with rdma-core v28.0.
  
  Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core v17.1.
  
  Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core master (f0a079f) (i386).
  
  Fedora 37 with rdma-core v41.0.
  
  Fedora 39 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v44.0.
  
  CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (f0a079f).
  
  CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.9-0.5.6.0.
  
  CentOS 8 8.4.2105 with rdma-core master (f0a079f).
  
  OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 with rdma-core v38.1.
  
  Windows Server 2019 with Clang 11.0.0.
- BlueField-2
  DOCA 1.5.1
  
  fw 24.35.2000
- ConnectX-7
  Ubuntu 20.04
  
  Driver MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.9-0.5.6.0
  
  fw 22.36.1010
- ConnectX-6 Dx
  Ubuntu 20.04
  
  Driver MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.9-0.5.6.0
  
  fw 22.36.1010
Red Hat(R) Testing
- Platform
  RHEL 8
  
  Kernel 5.14
  
  Qemu 6.2.0
  
  X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)
- Functionality
  Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size)
  
  Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size)
  
  Guest with device assignment(VF) throughput testing
  
  PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing
  
  PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing
  
  PVP vhost-user 1Q cross numa node throughput testing
  
  Guest with vhost-user 2 queues throughput testing
  
  vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: qemu reconnect
  
  vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: ovs reconnect
  
  PVP reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: PASS
  
  PVP 1Q live migration testing
  
  PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M)
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing
  
  Host PF + DPDK testing
  
  Host VF + DPDK testing

1.13.3. 20.11.8 Known Issues

softnic
- metering/policing: creating a rule can sometimes fail
testpmd
- a “OP_DEL_RSS_INPUT_CFG” error can sometimes appear when exiting

1.14. 20.11.9 Release Notes

1.14.1. 20.11.9 Fixes

app/crypto-perf: fix socket ID default value
app/testpmd: fix checksum engine with GTP on 32-bit
app/testpmd: fix GTP L2 length in checksum engine
baseband/fpga_5gnr_fec: fix possible division by zero
baseband/fpga_5gnr_fec: fix starting unconfigured queue
build: fix case of project language name
common/iavf: fix MAC type for 710 NIC
common/mlx5: adjust fork call with new kernel API
common/sfc_efx/base: fix Rx queue without RSS hash prefix
crypto/openssl: skip workaround at compilation time
crypto/scheduler: fix last element for valid args
doc: fix auth algos in cryptoperf app
doc: fix event timer adapter guide
doc: fix format in flow API guide
doc: fix typo in cnxk platform guide
doc: fix typo in graph guide
doc: fix typos and wording in flow API guide
doc: remove warning with Doxygen 1.9.7
doc: update BIOS settings and supported HW for NTB
eal: avoid calling cleanup twice
eal/linux: fix legacy mem init with many segments
eal/linux: fix secondary process crash for mp hotplug requests
eal/x86: improve multiple of 64 bytes memcpy performance
ethdev: check that at least one FEC mode is specified
ethdev: fix MAC address occupies two entries
ethdev: fix potential leak in PCI probing helper
ethdev: update documentation for API to get FEC
ethdev: update documentation for API to set FEC
eventdev/timer: fix buffer flush
eventdev/timer: fix timeout event wait behavior
event/dsw: free rings on close
examples/fips_validation: fix digest length in AES-GCM
examples/ip_pipeline: fix build with GCC 13
examples/ipsec-secgw: fix TAP default MAC address
examples/l2fwd-cat: fix external build
examples/ntb: fix build with GCC 13
fib: fix adding default route
ipc: fix file descriptor leakage with unhandled messages
kernel/freebsd: fix function parameter list
kni: fix build with Linux 6.3
kni: fix build with Linux 6.5
mbuf: fix Doxygen comment of distributor metadata
mem: fix memsegs exhausted message
net/bonding: fix destroy dedicated queues flow
net/bonding: fix startup when NUMA is not supported
net/dpaa2: fix checksum good flags
net/e1000: fix queue number initialization
net/e1000: fix Rx and Tx queue status
net/hns3: fix build warning
net/hns3: fix device start return value
net/hns3: fix FEC mode check
net/hns3: fix FEC mode for 200G ports
net/hns3: fix IMP reset trigger
net/hns3: fix inaccurate log
net/hns3: fix index to look up table in NEON Rx
net/hns3: fix mbuf leakage when RxQ started after reset
net/hns3: fix mbuf leakage when RxQ started during reset
net/hns3: fix non-zero weight for disabled TC
net/hns3: fix redundant line break in log
net/hns3: fix Rx multiple firmware reset interrupts
net/hns3: fix uninitialized variable
net/hns3: fix variable type mismatch
net/i40e: fix comments
net/i40e: fix Rx data buffer size
net/i40e: fix tunnel packet Tx descriptor
net/iavf: fix abnormal disable HW interrupt
net/iavf: fix Rx data buffer size
net/iavf: fix stop ordering
net/iavf: fix virtchnl command called in interrupt
net/iavf: release large VF when closing device
net/ice/base: remove unreachable code
net/ice: fix 32-bit build
net/ice: fix DCF control thread crash
net/ice: fix DCF RSS initialization
net/ice: fix outer UDP checksum offload
net/ice: fix RSS hash key generation
net/ice: fix Rx data buffer size
net/ice: fix statistics
net/ice: fix tunnel packet Tx descriptor
net/igc: fix Rx and Tx queue status
net/ixgbe: add proper memory barriers in Rx
net/ixgbe: fix Rx and Tx queue status
net/mlx5: enhance error log for tunnel offloading
net/mlx5: fix device removal event handling
net/mlx5: fix duplicated tag index matching in SWS
net/mlx5: fix LRO TCP checksum
net/mlx5: fix MPRQ stride size to accommodate the headroom
net/mlx5: fix risk in NEON Rx descriptor read
net/mlx5: forbid MPRQ restart
net/netvsc: fix sizeof calculation
net/nfp: fix address always related with PF ID 0
net/nfp: fix offloading flows
net/nfp: fix Tx descriptor free logic of NFD3
net/qede: fix RSS indirection table initialization
net/tap: set locally administered bit for fixed MAC address
net/txgbe/base: fix Tx with fiber hotplug
net/txgbe: fix extended statistics
net/txgbe: fix to set autoneg for 1G speed
net/txgbe: fix use-after-free on remove
net/virtio: fix initialization to return negative errno
net/virtio-user: fix leak when initialisation fails
net/vmxnet3: fix drop of empty segments in Tx
net/vmxnet3: fix return code in initializing
pci: fix comment referencing renamed function
ring: fix use after free
telemetry: fix autotest on Alpine
test: add graph tests
test/bonding: fix include of standard header
test/crypto: fix PDCP-SDAP test vectors
test/crypto: fix return value for SNOW3G
test/crypto: fix session creation check
test/malloc: fix missing free
test/malloc: fix statistics checks
test/mbuf: fix crash in a forked process
version: 20.11.9-rc1
vfio: fix include with musl runtime
vhost: fix invalid call FD handling

1.14.2. 20.11.9 Validation

Intel(R) Testing
- Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
  
  Build & CFLAG compile: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Fedora38, RHEL9.2, etc.
  
  PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
  
  VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
  
  PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
  
  Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, etc.
  
  IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- 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.
  
  Cryptodev:
  
  Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
  
  Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance/Cryptodev Latency, etc.
Red Hat(R) Testing
- Platform
  RHEL 9
  
  Kernel 5.14
  
  Qemu 6.2.0
  
  X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)
- Functionality
  Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size)
  
  Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size)
  
  Guest with device assignment(VF) throughput testing
  
  PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing
  
  PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing
  
  PVP vhost-user 1Q cross numa node throughput testing
  
  Guest with vhost-user 2 queues throughput testing
  
  vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: qemu reconnect
  
  vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: ovs reconnect
  
  PVP reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: PASS
  
  PVP 1Q live migration testing
  
  PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M)
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing
  
  Host PF + DPDK testing
  
  Host VF + DPDK testing
Nvidia(R) Testing
- Basic functionality via testpmd/example applications
  Tx/Rx
  
  xstats
  
  Timestamps
  
  Link status
  
  RTE flow and flow_director
  
  RSS
  
  VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion
  
  Checksum/TSO
  
  ptype
  
  link_status_interrupt example application
  
  l3fwd-power example application
  
  Multi-process example applications
  
  Hardware LRO tests
- Build tests
  Ubuntu 20.04.6 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.04-1.1.3.
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core master (aba30bd).
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core v28.0.
  
  Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core master (aba30bd) (i386).
  
  Fedora 38 with rdma-core v44.0.
  
  Fedora 39 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v46.0.
  
  OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 with rdma-core v42.0.
  
  Windows Server 2019 with Clang 11.0.0.
- BlueField-2
  DOCA 2.0.2
  
  fw 24.37.1300
- ConnectX-7
  Ubuntu 20.04
  
  Driver MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.04-1.1.3.0
  
  fw 28.37.1014
- ConnectX-6 Dx
  Ubuntu 20.04
  
  Driver MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.04-1.1.3.0
  
  fw 22.37.1014

1.14.3. 20.11.9 Known Issues

testpmd
- With the MLX PMD, multi-Packet Rx queue parameters are incorrectly adjusted and not applied properly. See: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1274

1.15. 20.11.10 Release Notes

1.15.1. 20.11.10 Fixes

app/pipeline: add sigint handler
app/procinfo: adjust format of RSS info
app/procinfo: fix RSS info
app/procinfo: remove unnecessary rte_malloc
app/test: fix reference to master in bonding test
app/testpmd: add explicit check for tunnel TSO
app/testpmd: fix early exit from signal
app/testpmd: fix help string
app/testpmd: fix tunnel TSO capability check
app/testpmd: fix tunnel TSO configuration
app/testpmd: remove useless check in TSO command
bus/dpaa: fix build with asserts for GCC 13
bus/pci: fix device ID log
common/mlx5: fix controller index parsing
cryptodev: add missing doc for security context
crypto/nitrox: fix panic with high number of segments
doc: fix some ordered lists
doc: remove number of commands in vDPA guide
doc: remove restriction on ixgbe vector support
doc: replace code blocks with includes in security guide
doc: update features in hns3 guide
doc: update versions recommendations for i40e and ice
drivers/crypto: modify max IPsec-mb version supported
eal/windows: fix build with recent MinGW
ethdev: fix 32-bit build with GCC 13
ethdev: fix ESP packet type description
ethdev: fix function name in comment
eventdev: fix device pointer for vdev-based devices
eventdev: fix missing driver names in info struct
event/dlb2: fix disable PASID
event/dlb2: fix missing queue ordering capability flag
event/dlb2: fix name check in self-test
event/sw: fix ordering corruption with op release
event/sw: remove obsolete comment
examples/ethtool: fix pause configuration
examples/ipsec-secgw: fix partial overflow
fib6: fix adding default route as first route
fib: fix adding default route overwriting entire table
hash: align SSE lookup to scalar implementation
malloc: remove return from void functions
mempool: clarify enqueue/dequeue ops documentation
mempool: fix default ops for an empty mempool
mempool: fix get function documentation
meter: fix RFC4115 trTCM API Doxygen
net/bonding: fix header for C++
net/bonding: fix link status callback stop
net/bonding: fix possible overrun
net/enic: avoid extra unlock in MTU set
net/hns3: fix crash for NEON and SVE
net/hns3: fix double stats for IMP and global reset
net/hns3: fix error code for multicast resource
net/hns3: fix flushing multicast MAC address
net/hns3: fix LRO offload to report
net/hns3: fix mailbox sync
net/hns3: fix order in NEON Rx
net/hns3: fix setting DCB capability
net/hns3: fix some error logs
net/hns3: fix some return values
net/hns3: fix unchecked Rx free threshold
net/hns3: fix uninitialized hash algo value
net/hns3: fix VF default MAC modified when set failed
net/hns3: keep set/get algo key functions local
net/hns3: remove reset log in secondary
net/i40e: fix buffer leak on Rx reconfiguration
net/i40e: fix FDIR queue receives broadcast packets
net/iavf: fix port stats clearing
net/iavf: fix TSO with big segments
net/iavf: fix Tx preparation
net/iavf: fix VLAN offload strip flag
net/iavf: remove log from Tx prepare function
net/ice: fix DCF port statistics
net/ice: fix initial link status
net/ice: fix L1 check interval
net/ice: fix TSO with big segments
net/ice: fix Tx preparation
net/ice: remove log from Tx prepare function
net/mlx5: fix hairpin queue states
net/mlx5: fix hairpin queue unbind
net/mlx5: fix leak in sysfs port name translation
net/mlx5: fix MPRQ stride size check
net/mlx5: fix multi-segment Tx inline data length
net/mlx5: zero UDP checksum over IPv4 in encapsulation
net/netvsc: increase VSP response timeout to 60 seconds
net/nfp: fix DMA error after abnormal exit
net/nfp: fix link status interrupt
net/nfp: fix reconfigure logic in PF initialization
net/nfp: fix reconfigure logic of set MAC address
net/tap: fix IPv4 checksum offloading
net/tap: fix L4 checksum offloading
net/tap: fix RSS for fragmented packets
net/tap: use MAC address parse API instead of local parser
net/txgbe: add proper memory barriers in Rx
net/txgbe: add Tx queue maximum limit
net/txgbe: check process type in close operation
net/txgbe: fix out of bound access
net/txgbe: keep link down after device close
net/txgbe: reconfigure MAC Rx when link update
net/virtio: fix link state interrupt vector setting
net/virtio: fix missing next flag in Tx packed ring
pdump: fix error number on IPC response
random: initialize state for unregistered non-EAL threads
rawdev: fix device class in log message
test/bbdev: assert failed test for queue configure
test/bbdev: fix Python script subprocess
test/bonding: add missing check
test/bonding: fix uninitialized RSS configuration
test/bonding: remove unreachable statement
test/crypto: fix IV in some vectors
test/crypto: fix typo in asym tests
test/crypto: skip some synchronous tests with CPU crypto
test/event: fix crypto null device creation
test/hash: fix creation error log
version: 20.11.10-rc1
vhost: fix missing check on virtqueue access
vhost: fix missing vring call check on virtqueue access

1.15.2. 20.11.10 Validation

Red Hat(R) Testing
- Platform
  RHEL 9
  
  Kernel 5.14
  
  Qemu 7.2.0
  
  libvirt 9.0.0
  
  X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)
- Functionality
  Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size)
  
  Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size)
  
  Guest with device assignment(VF) throughput testing
  
  PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing
  
  PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing
  
  PVP vhost-user 1Q cross numa node throughput testing
  
  Guest with vhost-user 2 queues throughput testing
  
  vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: qemu reconnect
  
  vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: ovs reconnect
  
  PVP reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: PASS
  
  PVP 1Q live migration testing
  
  PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M)
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing
  
  Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing
  
  Host PF + DPDK testing
  
  Host VF + DPDK testing
Nvidia(R) Testing
- Basic functionality via testpmd/example applications
  Tx/Rx
  
  xstats
  
  Timestamps
  
  Link status
  
  RTE flow and flow_director
  
  RSS
  
  VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion
  
  Checksum/TSO
  
  ptype
  
  link_status_interrupt example application
  
  l3fwd-power example application
  
  Multi-process example applications
  
  Hardware LRO tests
- Build tests
  Ubuntu 22.04.3 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.10-0.5.5.0.
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.6 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.07-0.5.1.2.
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core master (0cf342c).
  
  Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core v28.0.
  
  Fedora 38 with rdma-core v44.0.
  
  Fedora 40 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v48.0.
  
  OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 with rdma-core v42.0.
  
  Windows Server 2019 with Clang 16.0.6.
- BlueField-2
  DOCA 2.2.0
  
  fw 24.38.1002
- ConnectX-7
  Ubuntu 20.04
  
  Driver MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.10-0.5.5.0
  
  fw 28.39.1002
- ConnectX-6 Dx
  Ubuntu 20.04
  
  Driver MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.10-0.5.5.0
  
  fw 22.39.1002
Intel(R) Testing
- Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
  
  Build & CFLAG compile: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu22.04, Ubuntu20.04, Fedora38, RHEL9.2, RHEL8.7, FreeBSD13.2, Centos7.9 etc.
  
  PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
  
  VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
  
  PPF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
  
  Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, etc.
  
  IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- 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.
  
  Cryptodev:
  
  Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
  
  Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance/Cryptodev Latency, etc.