Re: [dpdk-dev] 16.11.8 (LTS) patches review and test

[Marco Varlese <mvarlese@suse.de>]

Hi Luca & all,

I confirm tests carried out via test_pmd and Ovs-DPDK do not show any regression
for us.


Cheers,
Marco

On Wed, 2018-08-29 at 10:55 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-08-27 at 17:17 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-08-23 at 09:55 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2018-08-13 at 19:21 +0100, luca.boccassi@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > > Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 16.11.8.
> > > > Please
> > > > help review and test. The planned date for the final release is
> > > > August
> > > > the 23rd.
> > > > Before that, please shout if anyone has objections with these
> > > > patches being applied.
> > > > 
> > > > Also for the companies committed to running regression tests,
> > > > please run the tests and report any issue before the release
> > > > date.
> > > > 
> > > > A release candidate tarball can be found at:
> > > > 
> > > >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v16.11.8-rc1
> > > > 
> > > > These patches are located at branch 16.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> > > >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > 
> > > > Luca Boccassi
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Regression tests from Intel have highlighted a possible issue with
> > > the
> > > changes (unidentified as of now), so while investigation is in
> > > progress
> > > we decided to postpone the release to Monday the 27th to be on the
> > > safe
> > > side.
> > > Apologies for any issues this might cause.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Unfortunately triaging is still in progress, so it's better to
> > postpone
> > again, to Wednesday the 29th of August.
> > Apologies again for any issues due to this delay.
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I've pushed an -rc2 with the following additional changes:
> 
> Luca Boccassi (1):
>       Revert "net/i40e: fix packet count for PF"
> 
> Radu Nicolau (3):
>       net/null: add MAC address setting fake operation
>       test/virtual_pmd: add MAC address setting fake op
>       test/bonding: assign non-zero MAC to null devices
> 
> Radu, I cherry-picked the following 3 patches that you got merged in
> 18.02 as they are necessary to fix bonding regression tests from Intel:
> 
> c5ac7748fd6bfd86b6fb4432b6792733cf32c94c
> c23fc36284e26fca9b52641118ad76a4da99d7af
> e8df563bac263e55b7dd9d45a00417aa92ef66cb
> 
> Qi, I have reverted the following patch that was backported to 16.11.4
> as it breaks a Fortville regression test from Intel:
> 
> 4bf705a7d74b0b4c1d82ad0821c43e32be15a5e5.
> 
> Marco, is there any chance you've got time today to re-run your tests?
> These changes in rc2 have been blessed by Intel and AT&T, so if it
> works for you as well I can then release later tonight.
> 
> A release candidate tarball can be found at:
> 
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v16.11.8-rc2
> 
> These patches are located at branch 16.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> 
> Thanks!
>