Re: 22.11.3 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>]

On 30/08/2023 17:25, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> On 29/08/2023 09:22, Xu, HailinX wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2023 2:14 PM
>>> To: stable@dpdk.org
>>> Cc: xuemingl@nvdia.com; 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>; Yanghang Liu <yanghliu@redhat.com>;
>>> Peng, Yuan <yuan.peng@intel.com>; Chen, Zhaoyan <zhaoyan.chen@intel.com>
>>> Subject: 22.11.3 patches review and test
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 22.11.3.
>>>
>>> The planned date for the final release is 31th August.
>>>
>>> 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=v22.11.3-rc1
>>>
>>> These patches are located at branch 22.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>>>       https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> We are conducting DPDK testing and have found two issues.
>>
>> 1. The startup speed of testpmd is significantly slower in the os of SUSE
>>     This issue fix patch has been merged into main, But it has not backported to 22.11.3.
>>     Fix patch commit id on DPDK main: 7e7b6762eac292e78c77ad37ec0973c0c944b845
>>
>> 2. The SCTP tunnel packet of iavf cannot be forwarded in avx512 mode

Need to clarify this sentence. It looks like it is not a functional bug 
where avx512 mode is selected and then an SCTP tunnel packet cannot be 
sent. Instead, it is a possible performance issue that avx512 mode will 
not be selected where it might have been due to unneeded additions 
(RTE_ETH_TX_OFFLOAD_*_TNL_TSO) to IAVF_TX_NO_VECTOR_FLAGS.

@IAVF maintainers - please confirm my analysis is correct ?

In that case, as it is a possible performance issue in a specific case 
for a single driver I think it is non-critical for 21.11 and we can just 
revert the patch on the branch and wait for 21.11.6 release in December.

thanks,
Kevin.

>>     commit 9b7215f150d0bfc5cb00fce68ff08e5217c7f2b3 on v22.11.3-rc1.
>>     This commit is for the new feature (avx512 checksum offload) in DPDK 23.03, which should not be backported to the LTS version since avx512 checksum offload is not supported in v22.11.3 LTS.
>>
> 
> Thanks for flagging Xueming.
> 
> The issue is that it was listed as fixing 059f18ae2aec ("net/iavf: add
> offload path for Tx AVX512") which goes back to 21.05.
> 
> This could have been avoided if the 'Fixes:' tag was correct, or if the
> authors replied to the email about queued backports :/
> 
> Requesting iavf/next-net-intel maintainers to check Fixes: tags are
> correct before merging.
> 
> DPDK 21.11.5 is already released with this patch. Any idea why it did
> not show up in validation for 21.11.5 ? Is it an issue for 21.11.5 ? How
> critical is it ?
> 
> I can revert it on the 21.11 branch, but it will need to wait until
> 21.11.6 in December before it will be reverted in a released version.
> 
> thanks,
> Kevin.
> 
>> Regards,
>> Xu, Hailin
>>
>