Re: 21.11.3 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>]

On 16/12/2022 07:55, YangHang Liu wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> RedHat QE does not find new issues about the 21.11.3 dpdk during the tests.
> 

Hi YangHang. Thanks for testing and reporting these results.

Kevin.

> We tested below 17 scenarios and all got PASS on RHEL8:
> 
>     - 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 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
> 
> Versions:
> 
>     - kernel 4.18
>     - qemu-kvm-6.2
>     - DPDK
>        - commit 0bb6905a88784306878d9fceb0aa1c1ec68d1397 (tag: v21.11.3-rc1)
>        Author: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
>        Date:   Mon Dec 5 11:53:33 2022 +0000
>            version: 21.11.3-rc1
>            Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
> 
> 
> NICs: X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> YangHang Liu
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 7:29 PM Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.3.
>>
>> The planned date for the final release is 19th December.
>>
>> 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=v21.11.3-rc1
>>
>> These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>>      https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Kevin
>>