Re: [dpdk-dev] 18.11.9 (LTS) patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani <alialnu@mellanox.com>]

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> Subject: Re: 18.11.9 (LTS) patches review and test
> 
> On 30/06/2020 09:54, Ali Alnubani wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> 
> Hi Ali,
> 
> Thanks for testing.
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
> >> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 3:53 PM
> >> To: stable@dpdk.org
> >> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe
> <Abhishek.Marathe@microsoft.com>;
> >> Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>; Ali Alnubani
> >> <alialnu@mellanox.com>; benjamin.walker@intel.com; David Christensen
> >> <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Hemant Agrawal
> <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>;
> >> Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>; Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>;
> >> John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>; Ju-Hyoung Lee
> >> <juhlee@microsoft.com>; Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>; Luca
> >> Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>; Pei Zhang <pezhang@redhat.com>;
> >> pingx.yu@intel.com; qian.q.xu@intel.com; Raslan Darawsheh
> >> <rasland@mellanox.com>; Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>;
> >> yuan.peng@intel.com; zhaoyan.chen@intel.com
> >> Subject: 18.11.9 (LTS) patches review and test
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 18.11.9.
> >>
> >> The planned date for the final release is 3rd July.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> > We ran the following tests on Mellanox hardware for this version:
> > - Basic functionality:
> >   Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
> > - testpmd xstats counter tests.
> > - testpmd timestamp tests.
> > - Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
> > - RTE flow and flow_director tests:
> >   Items: eth / vlan / ipv4 / ipv6 / tcp / udp / gre
> >   Actions: drop / queue / rss / mark / flag
> > - 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-5.0-2.1.8.0 / Firmware: 14.27.1016
> > - NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.0-2.1.8.0
> > / Firmware: 16.27.2008
> >
> > We found 2 issues:
> > - Failure to restart ports with kernels newer than 5.6 (call to mmap failed on
> UAR for txq).
> > - Applications fail to start with CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_DEBUG enabled
> (mlx5_ifindex: Assertion `priv->if_index' failed).
> 
> Are these regressions? i.e. does 18.11.8 fail in the same way in the same
> testbed

The first issue reproduces in previous releases as well, but only with kernels newer than 5.6.
The second one seems to have started reproducing in v18.11.7, but I only noticed it while testing this release.

> 
> > We are discussing these issues internally, and we see no other regressions
> blocking the release.
> >
> 
> ok, please let me know the outcome and if any patches need to be
> added/removed to resolve these issues.

Will do.

> 
> thanks,
> Kevin.
> 
> > Regards,
> > Ali
> >

Thanks,
Ali