Re: 21.11.2 patches review and test

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 07:33 +0000, Ali Alnubani wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 3:49 PM
> > To: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>; 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>; Pei Zhang
> > <pezhang@redhat.com>;
> > qian.q.xu@intel.com; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>; NBU-
> > Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas@monjalon.net>;
> > yuan.peng@intel.com; zhaoyan.chen@intel.com; yanghliu@redhat.com
> > Subject: RE: 21.11.2 patches review and test
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 3:34 PM
> > > To: stable@dpdk.org
> > > Cc: 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>; Pei Zhang <pezhang@redhat.com>;
> > > qian.q.xu@intel.com; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>; NBU-
> > > Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas@monjalon.net>;
> > > yuan.peng@intel.com; zhaoyan.chen@intel.com; yanghliu@redhat.com
> > > Subject: Re: 21.11.2 patches review and test
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2022-07-18 at 10:58 +0100, luca.boccassi@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.2.
> > > > 
> > > > 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=v21.11.2-rc1
> > > > 
> > > > These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> > > >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > 
> > > > Luca Boccassi
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Any update from any of the validation teams? Any indication on
> > > how the
> > > tests are going?
> > > 
> > 
> > I don't see any new issues yet in our regression testing on
> > multiple Nvidia
> > Mellanox cards. I'll send a report in a couple of weeks.
> > 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on
> 21.11.2-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:
>   - ecpri
>   - eth
>   - flex
>   - geneve
>   - geneve_opt
>   - gre
>   - gre_key
>   - gre_option
>   - gtp
>   - gtp_psc
>   - icmp
>   - icmp6
>   - integrity
>   - 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
>   - meter
>   - modify_field
>   - nvgre_decap
>   - nvgre_encap
>   - of_pop_vlan
>   - of_push_vlan
>   - of_set_vlan_pcp
>   - of_set_vlan_vid
>   - queue
>   - raw_decap
>   - raw_encap
>   - rss
>   - sample
>   - 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.
> - Regex application tests.
> - Buffer Split tests.
> - Tx scheduling 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 any new critical issues blocking this release.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ali

Thank you!

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi