RE: 20.11.7 patches review and test

["Jiang, YuX" <yux.jiang@intel.com>]

Hi All,
Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk20.11.7-rc1 validation test rate is 95%. No critical issue is found.
2 new bugs are found, 1 new issue is under confirming by Intel Dev.
New bugs:
  1, Compilation error compiling dpdk with vm_power_manager sample app  -- Intel dev is under investigating.
  2, vf_interrupt_pmd/nic_interrupt_VF_vfio_pci: l3fwd-power Wake up failed on X722 37d0
	- Find on DPDK22.11, it has fix patch: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20221117065726.277672-1-kaisenx.you@intel.com/
	- Patch is not merged into main, its fix can be applied on LTS20.11.7-rc1 and tested passed.
  3, inline ipsec: test failed on LTS20.11.7  -- Intel validation owner and dev are under investigating.

# 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.
- All test done. One known bug: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991 net/ena build failure with gcc 12, still no fix.
* PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. 
- All test done. No new dpdk issue is found. 
* VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.		
- All test done. No new dpdk issue is found. 	
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
- All test done. No new dpdk issue is found. 
* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, etc.
- All test done. No big performance drop.
* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- One issue is under confirming.	
		
# 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 7.0u3, etc.
- All test done. No new issue is found.
* Cryptodev: 
  *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
    - All test passed.
  *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
    - All test done. 

Best regards,
Yu Jiang

> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: 20.11.7 patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.7.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is the 12th of December.
> 
> 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.
> 
> A release candidate tarball can be found at:
> 
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v20.11.7-rc1
> 
> These patches are located at branch 20.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Luca Boccassi
> 
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