Re: [dpdk-dev] 20.11.3 patches review and test

[Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 2021-08-13 at 11:42 +0000, Jiang, YuX wrote:
> Hi Luca,
> 
> Testing with dpdk v20.11.3-rc1 from Intel looks good, no critical issue is found.
> Below issues have been fixed in 20.11.3-rc1:
> 1)ddp_gtp_qregion/fd_gtpu_ipv4_dstip: flow director does not work.
> 2)rxtx_offload/rxoffload_port: Pkt1 can't be distributed to the same queue. 
> 
> Test Scope:
> # Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
> * Build: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang/ICC version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, CentOS8.3, Fedora34, RHEL8.3 and so on. Listed but not all.
> - All passed. 
> *PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including rte_flow/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/Tunnel, etc. Listed but not all.
> - All test is done, no new issue is found.
> Known issues as below:
>   1)https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790 unit_tests_power/power_cpufreq: unit test failed: Clone from https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687 , this issue is found in 21.05/LTS20.11.2, fixed in 21.08. But still failed in LTS20.11.3-rc1.
> *VF(i40e,ixgbe): test scenarios including vf-rte_flow/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/Tunnel, Listed but not all.
> - All passed. No new issues are found.              
> *PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including switch features/Flow Director/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor and so on, Listed but not all.
> - All test is done, no new issue is found.
> Two known DPDK issues: 
> 1)cvl_advanced_iavf_rss: change the SCTP port value, the hash value remains unchanged. This issue is found in 20.11-rc3, fixed in 21.02, but it’s belong to 21.02 new feature, won’t backporting to LTS20.11.
> 2)Can't create 512 acl rules after creating a full mask switch rule. This issue is also occurred in dpdk 20.11. Has fixed patch, but not merged.
>   Fixed patch link: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20210728022429.237010-1-simei.su@intel.com/ 
> * Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test(AVX2+AVX512) test and so on. Listed but not all.
> - All passed. No big performance data drop. 
> 
> # 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, etc.. Listed but not all.
> - All test is done, no new issue is found.
> One known issues as below:
> 1)The UDP fragmentation offload feature of Virtio-net device can’t be turned on in the VM, long time kernel issue, bugzilla has been submited: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207075 , not fixed yet.                     
> * Cryptodev: 
>   **Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc. Listed but not all.
>   - All passed.
>   **Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc. Listed but not all.
>   - No big performance data drop.
> 
> Best regards,
> Yu Jiang

Thank you!

For https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790 if an appropriately
modified version of 29343b9030e38e8c3519ba01cb66724d45b13dc8 gets
backported I can merge it.

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi