Re: [dpdk-dev] 19.11.1 patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani <alialnu@mellanox.com>]

Hi Luca,

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> Subject: 19.11.1 patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.1.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is March the 16th.
> 
> 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 covers the tests that we ran on Mellanox hardware for this release:

- Basic functionality:
  Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
- testpmd xstats counter test.
- testpmd timestamp test.
- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
- RTE flow and flow_director tests.
  Items: eth / vlan / ipv4 / ipv6 / tcp / udp / icmp / gre / nvgre / vxlan / geneve / ip in ip / mplsoudp / mplsogre / gtp
  Actions: drop / queue / rss / mark / flag / jump / count / port_id / raw_encap / raw_decap / vxlan_encap / vxlan_decap / NAT / dec_ttl / set_dscp
- Some RSS tests.
- VLAN stripping and insertion tests.
- Checksum and TSO tests.
- ptype tests.
- l3fwd-power example application tests.
- Multi-process example applications tests.

Testing matrix:
- NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.0-1.0.0.0 / Firmware: 14.27.1016
- NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.0-1.0.0.0 / Firmware: 16.27.1016

We don't see any critical issues blocking the release.

Thanks,
Ali