Re: [dpdk-dev] 18.11.9 (LTS) patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>]

On 30/06/2020 11:02, Ali Alnubani wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 12:53 PM
>> To: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@mellanox.com>; stable@dpdk.org
>> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe@microsoft.com>;
>> Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.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>; Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>;
>> Pei Zhang <pezhang@redhat.com>; pingx.yu@intel.com;
>> qian.q.xu@intel.com; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@mellanox.com>; Thomas
>> Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; yuan.peng@intel.com;
>> zhaoyan.chen@intel.com
>> Subject: Re: 18.11.9 (LTS) patches review and test
>>
>> On 30/06/2020 09:54, Ali Alnubani wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>
>> Hi Ali,
>>
>> Thanks for testing.
>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
>>>> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 3:53 PM
>>>> To: stable@dpdk.org
>>>> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe
>> <Abhishek.Marathe@microsoft.com>;
>>>> Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>; Ali Alnubani
>>>> <alialnu@mellanox.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>;
>>>> pingx.yu@intel.com; qian.q.xu@intel.com; Raslan Darawsheh
>>>> <rasland@mellanox.com>; Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>;
>>>> yuan.peng@intel.com; zhaoyan.chen@intel.com
>>>> Subject: 18.11.9 (LTS) patches review and test
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 18.11.9.
>>>>
>>>> The planned date for the final release is 3rd July.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> We ran the following tests on Mellanox hardware for this version:
>>> - Basic functionality:
>>>   Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
>>> - testpmd xstats counter tests.
>>> - testpmd timestamp tests.
>>> - Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
>>> - RTE flow and flow_director tests:
>>>   Items: eth / vlan / ipv4 / ipv6 / tcp / udp / gre
>>>   Actions: drop / queue / rss / mark / flag
>>> - Some RSS tests.
>>> - VLAN stripping and insertion tests.
>>> - Checksum and TSO tests.
>>> - ptype tests.
>>> - l3fwd-power example application tests.
>>> - Multi-process example applications tests.
>>>
>>> Testing matrix:
>>> - NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver:
>>> MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.0-2.1.8.0 / Firmware: 14.27.1016
>>> - NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.0-2.1.8.0
>>> / Firmware: 16.27.2008
>>>
>>> We found 2 issues:
>>> - Failure to restart ports with kernels newer than 5.6 (call to mmap failed on
>> UAR for txq).
>>> - Applications fail to start with CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_DEBUG enabled
>> (mlx5_ifindex: Assertion `priv->if_index' failed).
>>

To wrap this thread, the following series were applied for the above
issues and Ali re-ran validation.

http://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/1594105971-14738-1-git-send-email-viacheslavo@mellanox.com/

http://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/1593700670-25730-1-git-send-email-viacheslavo@mellanox.com/


>> Are these regressions? i.e. does 18.11.8 fail in the same way in the same
>> testbed
> 
> The first issue reproduces in previous releases as well, but only with kernels newer than 5.6.
> The second one seems to have started reproducing in v18.11.7, but I only noticed it while testing this release.
> 
>>
>>> We are discussing these issues internally, and we see no other regressions
>> blocking the release.
>>>
>>
>> ok, please let me know the outcome and if any patches need to be
>> added/removed to resolve these issues.
> 
> Will do.
> 
>>
>> thanks,
>> Kevin.
>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ali
>>>
> 
> Thanks,
> Ali
>