RE: 21.11.1 patches review and test

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jiang, YuX
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 4:59 PM
> To: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>; 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>; hariprasad.govindharajan@intel.com; Hemant
> Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>; Stokes, Ian <ian.stokes@intel.com>;
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> Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>; Pei Zhang <pezhang@redhat.com>; Xu,
> Qian Q <qian.q.xu@intel.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>;
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> Subject: RE: 21.11.1 patches review and test
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
> > Sent: Friday, April 1, 2022 6:22 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>; 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>; 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: 21.11.1 patches review and test
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.1.
> >
> > Please try and complete validation by April 13th.
> >
> > 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=v21.11.1-rc1
> >
> > These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > ---
> 
> Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk21.11.1-rc1 test rate is 90%.
> Till now, no critical issue is found.
> Failure defect:
> Bug1: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992 [dpdk 21.11.1-rc1]
> drivers/net/cnxk/cnxk_ethdev_mtr meson build failed with cflag param
> optimization=1 on Ubuntu20.04 with GCC10.3  > It was found in 22.03-
> rc2(https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939), validation team apply
> 939's patch failed. Need new patch for LTS21.11.1-rc1.
> 
> # Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
> * Build&CFLAG compile: cover the build test combination with latest
> GCC/Clang/ICC version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04,
> Fedora35, RHEL8.4, etc.
> - All test done. Find new bug: Bug1, not fix.
> * 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 big performance drop.
> * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test -
> QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
> - All test passed.
> * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll
> Lib/Priority Base Frequency, 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/VMAWARE ESXI 7.0u3, 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/FIPS, etc.
> - Test rate: 80%, no new issue is found currently.
> *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance
> /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
> - Test rate: 80%, no new issue is found currently.
> 

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk21.11.1-rc1 test is almost finished. Till now, no critical issue is found.
Failure defect:  
Bug1: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992 [dpdk 21.11.1-rc1] drivers/net/cnxk/cnxk_ethdev_mtr meson build failed with cflag param optimization=1 on Ubuntu20.04 with GCC10.3
 > Verify patchset http://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/20220413120511.566715-1-ktraynor@redhat.com/T/#u on baseline 21.11.1-rc1, test passed.
 
# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* Build&CFLAG compile: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang/ICC version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Fedora35, RHEL8.4, etc.
- All test done. Find new bug: Bug1.
* 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 big performance drop.
* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- All test passed.
* Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, 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/VMAWARE ESXI 7.0u3, 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/FIPS, etc.
- All test done. 
*Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
- All test done.

Best regards,
Yu Jiang