From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1412A04AC for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2020 15:01:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85E3B1C113; Tue, 1 Sep 2020 15:01:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga07.intel.com (mga07.intel.com [134.134.136.100]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7EC1C0BC; Tue, 1 Sep 2020 15:01:38 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-SDR: qYrKTZWUd10gkO3BdjtD4MoGEHrBw7jLhdfOOeivUe7IWHA6+iXSTTUfEC5x108+kzy5tB4tyU BcBy1YDquotg== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6000,8403,9730"; a="221384613" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.76,379,1592895600"; d="scan'208";a="221384613" X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga005.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.41]) by orsmga105.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 01 Sep 2020 06:01:32 -0700 IronPort-SDR: 6L469uf1EZbdjb08CA6/wJhAdaB9jVX4Wd7265Y1SnFA1MCyBqYiN7P9iElYo0gdPpxdX/u5HA POY5rCOQmzZw== X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.76,379,1592895600"; d="scan'208";a="477190643" Received: from bricha3-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com ([10.251.80.162]) by orsmga005-auth.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 01 Sep 2020 06:01:31 -0700 Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 14:01:28 +0100 From: Bruce Richardson To: Luca Boccassi Cc: Christian Ehrhardt , Ian Stokes , stable@dpdk.org, dev Message-ID: <20200901130128.GA1051@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <20200818181222.8462-1-bluca@debian.org> <98c92e1040e24eaee4a6659e81bfd5f940a1926c.camel@debian.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <98c92e1040e24eaee4a6659e81bfd5f940a1926c.camel@debian.org> Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] 19.11.4 patches review and test X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: stable-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "stable" On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 01:49:07PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 14:32 +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 10:30 AM Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 19:12 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.4. > > > > > > > > The planned date for the final release is August 31st. > > > > > > > > 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=v19.11.4-rc1 > > > > > > > > These patches are located at branch 19.11 of dpdk-stable repo: > > > > https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/ > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > Luca Boccassi > > > > > > Microsoft's regression tests are still running, delaying until Thursday > > > the 3rd. Apologies for any inconvenience. > > > > Due to report on OVS failing to build I happened to find that 19.11.4 > > has massively changed linking. > > => https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/znCRR4gpjP/ > > > > This was meant to be helpful for sure and I assume is around: > > 48f7fd27f6 build/pkg-config: prevent overlinking > > 2d1535d592 build/pkg-config: improve static linking flags > > 9fb13a12c1 build/pkg-config: output drivers first for static build > > 59b108d824 build/pkg-config: move pkg-config file creation > > aea915e944 devtools: test static linkage with pkg-config > > > > But overlinking has effectively become underlinking now > > https://launchpadlibrarian.net/495845224/buildlog_ubuntu-groovy-amd64.openvswitch_2.13.1-0ubuntu2~ppa1_BUILDING.txt.gz > > > > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/librte_pmd_ring.a(net_ring_rte_eth_ring.c.o): > > in function `rte_eth_from_rings': > > (.text+0x91c): undefined reference to `rte_vdev_init' > > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/librte_pmd_ring.a(net_ring_rte_eth_ring.c.o): > > in function `vdrvinitfn_pmd_ring_drv': > > (.text.startup+0x28): undefined reference to `rte_vdev_register' > > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > > > > Also as you can see in the pastebin above, CFlags and Libs massively > > shrunk and likely too much so. > > > > Given that this should be a stable release I'd ask to back out those > > changes so that a test build creates the same .pc file as before - > > would that make sense? > > Paging Bruce and Ian - IIRC OVS explicitly asked for that series to be > backported and took a dependency on it, so removing it might cause > breakages for them? Ian? > > Bruce, have you see the error reported by Christian before? > Nope, but I'll look into it...