RE: 19.11.11 patches review and test

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jiang, YuX <yux.jiang@intel.com>
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> Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>; Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>;
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> Subject: RE: 19.11.11 patches review and test
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com
> > <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, December 9, 2021 10:43 PM
> > To: stable@dpdk.org
> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe
> <Abhishek.Marathe@microsoft.com>;
> > Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>; Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>;
> > Walker, Benjamin <benjamin.walker@intel.com>; David Christensen
> > <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Govindharajan, Hariprasad
> > <hariprasad.govindharajan@intel.com>; Hemant Agrawal
> > <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>; Stokes, Ian <ian.stokes@intel.com>; Jerin
> > Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>; Mcnamara, John
> <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>; pingx.yu@intel.com; Xu, Qian Q
> > <qian.q.xu@intel.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>; Thomas
> > Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; Peng, Yuan <yuan.peng@intel.com>;
> > Chen, Zhaoyan <zhaoyan.chen@intel.com>
> > Subject: 19.11.11 patches review and test
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.11.
> >
> > The planned date for the final release is 7th January 2021.
> >
> > 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=v19.11.11-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>
> >
> > ---
> Hi Christian,
> 
> We find many build issues on LTS19.11. But all of them have no fix yet.
> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744	DPDK	core	dev	UNCO
> 	---	[dpdk-19.11.9-rc3] make build failed on Fedora34 with GCC11
> and build failed on Fedora35 with gcc11.2.1&clang13.0.0
> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747	DPDK	core	dev	UNCO
> 	---	[dpdk-19.11.9-rc3] Meson build failed with ICC-19.1.1
> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=900	DPDK	ethdev	dev	UNCO
> 	---	[19.11.11-rc1] net/nfp build failure with clang 13
> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901	DPDK	ethdev	dev	UNCO
> 	---	[19.11.11-rc1] net/i40e build failure with make and clang 13
> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=902	DPDK	ethdev	dev	UNCO
> 	---	[19.11.11-rc1] net/ice build failure with make and clang 13
> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903	DPDK	ethdev	dev	UNCO
> 	---	[19.11.11-rc1] net/ixgbe build failure with make and clang 13
> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=904	DPDK	meson	dev	UNCO
> 	---	[dpdk-19.11.11] Meson build has some failures on Fedora35
> with clang 13.0.0
> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=905	DPDK	meson	dev	UNCO
> 	---	[dpdk-19.11.11-rc1]Meson&Makefile build failed on
> Freebsd13 with gcc10.3.0&clang11.0.1

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk19.11.11-rc1 test is almost finished. 
Totally find three bugs for Build test from Intel.
# 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, Fedora34, RHEL8.4, etc.
- All test done.
- Tree bugs are found.
  https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=904
  https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=905
  dpdk-19.11.11-rc]KNI build failed used makefile on OpenSuse15.3 with gcc7.5.0&clang11.0.1, has fix.
* PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. 
- All test done. No new issue is found. 
* VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.		
- All test done. No new issue is found. 	
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx, etc.
- All test done. No new issue is found. 
* 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 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.
* Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
- All test done.