RE: 19.11.13 patches review and test

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

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> Subject: 19.11.13 patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.13.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is August 29th.
> 
> 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=v19.11.13-rc1
> 
> These patches are located at branch 19.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> 
> ---

Update the test status for Intel part. DPDK19.11.13-rc1 almost test finished, no critical issue is found, but find some new bugs on new OS.
New report defects:
  Bug1: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1056 [dpdk-19.11.13-rc1] unit_tests_eal/link_bonding_rssconf: link_bonding_rssconf_autotest test failed
    > This is found in 22.07, but that fix failed to be applied to LTS19.11, need rebase. 
  Build-Bug2: [dpdk 19.11.13-rc1] lib/librte_eal meson build error with gcc12.1 on fedora36, similar as https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=985
    > No fix yet.
  Build-Bug3: [dpdk 19.11.13-rc1] drivers/net/ena make build error with gcc12.1 on fedora36, similar as https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991
    > No fix yet.
  Build-Bug4: [dpdk 19.11.13-rc1] drivers/net/ice/ice_rxtx meson build error with gcc11.2 on Ubuntu22.04".
    > This is found in 22.07, but that fix failed to be applied to LTS19.11, need rebase, Intel Dev is under investigating.
  Build-Bug5: [dpdk 19.11.13-rc1] /lib/eal meson and make build failed with gcc10.3.0 and clang13.0.0 on FreeBSD13.1/64.
    > This is found in 22.07, but that fix failed to be applied to LTS19.11, need rebase, Intel Dev(Bruce) has send fix.
  Build-Bug6: [dpdk 19.11.13-rc1] drivers/net/qede make build error with clang14 on fedora36/redhat8.6/UB22.04
    > Known issue, https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=912, no fix yet.

# 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&22.04, Fedora36, RHEL8.4, etc.
- All test done. 
* PF&VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. 
- All test done. Find one new bug: Bug1. 
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx, etc.
- All test done. No new issue is found. Known bug about [dpdk-19.11.12] metering_and_policing/ipv4_HASH_table_RFC2698: unable to forward packets normally. Intel Dev is still investigating.
* 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.
- All test passed.			
# 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.
- All test done. No new issue is found.
* Cryptodev: 
* Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/ etc.
- All test done. No new issue is found.
* Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
- All test done. No performance drop.

Best regards,
Yu Jiang