Re: [dpdk-dev] 17.11.10 (LTS) patches review and test

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>]

On Wed, 2020-01-22 at 16:06 +0000, Ali Alnubani wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Luca Boccassi <
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> > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2020 2:47 PM
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> > Cc: 
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> > ; Akhil Goyal <
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> > >; Ali Alnubani
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> > alialnu@mellanox.com
> > >; 
> > benjamin.walker@intel.com
> > ; David Christensen
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> > Ian Stokes <
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> > >; Jerin Jacob <
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> > >; John
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> > qian.q.xu@intel.com
> > ; Raslan Darawsheh
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> > rasland@mellanox.com
> > >; Thomas Monjalon <
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> > yuan.peng@intel.com
> > ; Chen, Zhaoyan <
> > zhaoyan.chen@intel.com
> > >
> > Subject: 17.11.10 (LTS) patches review and test
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 17.11.10.
> > This will be the last 17.11 release.
> > 
> > The planned date for the final release is the 30th of January.
> > 
> > Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and
> > report any
> > issues/results with reply-all to this mail. For the final release
> > the fixes and
> > reported validations will be added to the release notes.
> > 
> 
> The following cases were tested on Mellanox devices:
> - Verify sending and receiving multiple types of traffic.
> - testpmd xstats counter tests.
> - testpmd timestamp tests.
> - Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
> - RTE flow and flow_director tests.
> - Some RSS tests.
> - VLAN stripping and insertion tests.
> - Checksum and TSO tests.
> - ptype tests.
> - Multi-process tests.
> 
> Testing matrix:
> - NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.7-
> 3.2.9.0 / Firmware: 14.26.4012
> - NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.7-3.2.9.0 
> / Firmware: 16.26.4012
> 
> Current issues:
> - The message “PMD: Failed to send netlink message: Bad file
> descriptor (9)” is shown at testpmd startup. Still didn’t debug its
> effect on functionality.
> - ibv_icmd_create_cq () from /lib64/libibverbs.so.1 segfaults after
> setting the number of queues and restarting the ports.
> - Enabling MLX4_PMD causes a build failure with OFED-4.7-3.2.9.0
> (“error: unknown type name ‘off_t’”).
> - Count action isn’t supported in rte_flow.
> - Error creating rte_flow rules with vlan items.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ali

Thanks - are these new regressions since 17.11.9?

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi