RE: 20.11.6 patches review and test

["Xueming(Steven) Li" <xuemingl@nvidia.com>]

Thanks Nvidia test team!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2022 10:55 PM
> To: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>; stable@dpdk.org
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe@microsoft.com>; benjamin.walker@intel.com; David Christensen
> <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>; Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>; Jerin Jacob
> <jerinj@marvell.com>; John McNamara <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>; qian.q.xu@intel.com; Raslan Darawsheh
> <rasland@nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas@monjalon.net>; Yanghang Liu <yanghliu@redhat.com>;
> yuan.peng@intel.com; zhaoyan.chen@intel.com
> Subject: RE: 20.11.6 patches review and test
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> > Sent: Monday, August 15, 2022 12:17 PM
> > To: stable@dpdk.org
> > Cc: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek
> > Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe@microsoft.com>; Ali Alnubani
> > <alialnu@nvidia.com>; benjamin.walker@intel.com; David Christensen
> > <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>; Ian
> > Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>; Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>; John
> > McNamara <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>;
> > qian.q.xu@intel.com; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>; NBU-
> > Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas@monjalon.net>; Yanghang Liu
> > <yanghliu@redhat.com>; yuan.peng@intel.com; zhaoyan.chen@intel.com
> > Subject: 20.11.6 patches review and test
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.6.
> >
> > 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=v20.11.6-rc1
> >
> > These patches are located at branch 20.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> >
> > ---
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on 20.11.6-rc1:
> - Basic functionality:
>   Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
> - testpmd xstats counter test.
> - testpmd timestamp test.
> - Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
> - RTE flow tests:
>   Items:
>   - eth
>   - geneve
>   - gre
>   - gre_key
>   - gtp
>   - icmp
>   - icmp6
>   - ipv4
>   - ipv6
>   - ipv6_frag_ext
>   - mark
>   - meta
>   - mpls
>   - nvgre
>   - tag
>   - tcp
>   - udp
>   - vlan
>   - vxlan
>   - vxlan_gpe
>   Actions:
>   - age
>   - count
>   - dec_tcp_ack
>   - dec_tcp_seq
>   - dec_ttl
>   - drop
>   - flag
>   - inc_tcp_ack
>   - inc_tcp_seq
>   - jump
>   - mark
>   - queue
>   - raw_decap
>   - raw_encap
>   - rss
>   - set_ipv4_dscp
>   - set_ipv4_dst
>   - set_ipv4_src
>   - set_ipv6_dscp
>   - set_ipv6_dst
>   - set_ipv6_src
>   - set_mac_dst
>   - set_mac_src
>   - set_meta
>   - set_tag
>   - set_tp_dst
>   - set_tp_src
>   - set_ttl
>   - vxlan_decap
>   - vxlan_encap
> 
> - Some RSS tests.
> - VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion tests.
> - Checksum and TSO tests.
> - ptype tests.
> - link_status_interrupt example application tests.
> - l3fwd-power example application tests.
> - Multi-process example applications tests.
> - Hardware LRO tests.
> 
> Functional tests ran on:
> - NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.7-1.0.2.0 / Firmware: 14.32.1010
> - NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.7-1.0.2.0 / Firmware: 16.34.1002
> - NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.7-1.0.2.0 / Firmware: 22.34.1002
> - DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 1.4.0
> 
> Additionally, we ran compilation tests with multiple configurations in the following OS/driver combinations:
> - Ubuntu 20.04.4 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.7-1.0.2.0.
> - Ubuntu 20.04.4 with rdma-core master (23a0021).
> - Ubuntu 20.04.4 with rdma-core v28.0.
> - Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core v17.1.
> - Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core master (23a0021) (i386).
> - Ubuntu 16.04.7 with rdma-core v22.7.
> - Fedora 35 with rdma-core v39.0.
> - Fedora 37 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v39.0 (with clang only).
> - CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (23a0021).
> - CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.7-1.0.2.0.
> - CentOS 8 8.4.2105 with rdma-core master (23a0021).
> - OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 with rdma-core v38.1.
> - Windows Server 2019 with Clang 11.0.0.
> 
> We don't see new issues caused by the changes in this release.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ali