Re: 21.11.4 patches review and test

[YangHang Liu <yanghliu@redhat.com>]

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Hi, Kevin

RedHat QE does not find new issues about the v21.11.4-rc1 dpdk during the
tests.

We tested below 18 scenarios and all got PASS on RHEL9:

   - Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size):
   PASS
   - Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size)
   : PASS
   - Guest with device assignment(VF) throughput testing: PASS
   - PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing: PASS
   - PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing: PASS
   - PVP vhost-user 1Q - cross numa node throughput testing: PASS
   - Guest with vhost-user 2 queues throughput testing: PASS
   - vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server qemu reconnect: PASS
   - vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server ovs reconnect: PASS
   - PVP  reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: PASS
   - PVP 1Q live migration testing: PASS
   - PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing: PASS
   - Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing: PASS
   - Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M): PASS
   - Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing: PASS
   - Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing: PASS
   - Host PF + DPDK testing: PASS
   - Host VF + DPDK testing: PASS

Test Versions:

   - qemu-kvm-6.2.0
   - kernel 5.14
   - dpdk 21.11.4-rc1

git log -1

commit f7dce59377b34750fdda7d1780d527233c84663f

Author: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>

Date: Thu Apr 6 09:11:25 2023 +0100

version: 21.11.4-rc1

Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>


   - Test device : X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)

Best Regards,
YangHang Liu

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 2:13 PM Xu, HailinX <hailinx.xu@intel.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2023 7:38 PM
> > To: stable@dpdk.org
> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe@microsoft.com>;
> > Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>; Walker, Benjamin
> > <benjamin.walker@intel.com>; David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.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>; Xu, Qian Q <qian.q.xu@intel.com>; Raslan
> > Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>; Thomas Monjalon
> > <thomas@monjalon.net>; yanghliu@redhat.com; Peng, Yuan
> > <yuan.peng@intel.com>; Chen, Zhaoyan <zhaoyan.chen@intel.com>
> > Subject: 21.11.4 patches review and test
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.4.
> >
> > The planned date for the final release is 25th April.
> >
> > 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=v21.11.4-rc1
> >
> > These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Kevin
>
> HI All,
>
> Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk21.11.4-rc1 validation
> test rate is 85%. No critical issue is found.
> 2 new bugs are found, 1 new issue is under confirming by Intel Dev.
> New bugs:   --20.11.8-rc1 also has these two issues
>   1. pvp_qemu_multi_paths_port_restart:perf_pvp_qemu_vector_rx_mac:
> performance drop about 23.5% when send small packets
>         https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212    -- no fix yet
>   2. some of the virtio tests are failing:    -- Intel dev is under
> investigating
> # Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
> * Build & CFLAG compile: cover the build test combination with latest
> GCC/Clang version and the popular OS revision such as
>   Ubuntu20.04, Ubuntu22.04, Fedora35, Fedora37, RHEL8.6, RHEL8.4,
> FreeBSD13.1, SUSE15, CentOS7.9, etc.
> - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> * PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including
> RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
> - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> * VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including
> VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
> - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> * PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package
> Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible
> Descriptor, etc.
> - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> * Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF
> single core performance test, etc.
> - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test
> - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
> - On going.
>
> # 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/VMAWARE ESXI 8.0, etc.
> - All test done. found bug1.
> * Cryptodev:
>   *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API
> testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
>     - Execution rate is 90%. found bug2.
>   *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput
> Performance/Cryptodev Latency, etc.
>     - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
>
> Regards,
> Xu, Hailin
>
>

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