RE: 20.11.8 patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>]

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> Subject: RE: 20.11.8 patches review and test
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: luca.boccassi@gmail.com <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
> > Sent: Friday, March 31, 2023 9:20 PM
> > To: stable@dpdk.org
> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe
> <Abhishek.Marathe@microsoft.com>;
> > Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.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>; qian.q.xu@intel.com; Raslan Darawsheh
> > <rasland@nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL)
> > <thomas@monjalon.net>; Yanghang Liu <yanghliu@redhat.com>;
> > yuan.peng@intel.com; zhaoyan.chen@intel.com
> > Subject: 20.11.8 patches review and test
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.8.
> >
> > The planned date for the final release is April 17th.
> >
> > 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=v20.11.8-rc1
> >
> > These patches are located at branch 20.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Luca Boccassi
> >
> > ---
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on v20.11.8-rc1:
> - Basic functionality:
>   Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
> - testpmd xstats counter test.
> - testpmd timestamp test.
> - Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
> - rte_flow tests.
> - Some RSS tests.
> - VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion tests.
> - Checksum and TSO tests.
> - ptype tests.
> - link_status_interrupt example application tests.
> - l3fwd-power example application tests.
> - Multi-process example applications tests.
> - Hardware LRO tests.
> 
> Functional tests ran on:
> - NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.9-
> 0.5.6.0 / Firmware: 22.36.1010
> - NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.9-
> 0.5.6.0 / Firmware: 22.36.1010
> - DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 1.5.1 / Firmware: 24.35.2000
> 
> Additionally, we ran compilation tests with multiple configurations in the
> following OS/driver combinations:
> - 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.
> 
> We don't see new issues caused by the changes in this release.
> 
> Please note that not all the functional tests mentioned above fall under
> "Basic functionality with testpmd" like reported in the release notes for
> previous releases:
> https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-
> stable/commit/?h=v20.11.7&id=62865fef48cb93042e8b9f85821eb02e1031e8f
> 0
> Some of them test other applications.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ali

Hello,

I see this documentation build failure on Fedora 37:

$ ninja-build -C build doc
[..]
[2/4] Generating doc/api/doxygen with a custom command
FAILED: doc/api/html
/root/dpdk/doc/api/generate_doxygen.sh doc/api/doxy-api.conf doc/api/html /root/dpdk/doc/api/doxy-html-custom.sh
/root/dpdk/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev_pmd.h:489: error: found documented return type for rte_cryptodev_pmd_callback_process that does not return anything (warning treated as error, aborting now)
[..]
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.