RE: 20.11.6 patches review and test

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
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> Subject: RE: 20.11.6 patches review and test
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jiang, YuX <yux.jiang@intel.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2022 5:39 PM
> > To: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl@nvidia.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>; 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>;
> > NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas@monjalon.net>;
> Yanghang
> > Liu <yanghliu@redhat.com>; Peng, Yuan <yuan.peng@intel.com>; Chen,
> > Zhaoyan <zhaoyan.chen@intel.com>
> > Subject: RE: 20.11.6 patches review and test
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 2:10 PM
> > > To: Jiang, YuX <yux.jiang@intel.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>; 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>; NBU- Contact-Thomas Monjalon
> > > (EXTERNAL) <thomas@monjalon.net>; Yanghang Liu
> > > <yanghliu@redhat.com>; Peng, Yuan <yuan.peng@intel.com>; Chen,
> > > Zhaoyan <zhaoyan.chen@intel.com>
> > > Subject: RE: 20.11.6 patches review and test
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Jiang, YuX <yux.jiang@intel.com>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 11:23 AM
> > > > To: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl@nvidia.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>; 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>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon
> > > > (EXTERNAL) <thomas@monjalon.net>;
> > > Yanghang
> > > > Liu <yanghliu@redhat.com>; Peng, Yuan <yuan.peng@intel.com>;
> Chen,
> > > > Zhaoyan <zhaoyan.chen@intel.com>
> > > > Subject: RE: 20.11.6 patches review and test
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> > > > > Sent: Monday, August 15, 2022 5:17 PM
> > > > > To: stable@dpdk.org
> > > > > Cc: xuemingl@nvidia.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: 20.11.6 patches review and test
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.6.
> > > > >
> > > > > 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=v20.11.6-rc1
> > > > >
> > > > > These patches are located at branch 20.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> > > > >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks.
> > > > >
> > > > > Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> > > > >
> > > > > ---
> > > > Hi Xueming,
> > > >
> > > > We found one kni build bug
> > > > https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1066,
> > > which will block build when kmods=True.
> > > > And this is a fix https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=327ef506599
> > > > can be
> > > applied on LTS20.11 and verified passed.
> > > > So could you pls merge it into LTS20.11? Thanks~
> > >
> > > Patch merged and pushed.  Thanks for identifying the problem!
> > >
> > Thanks Xueming,
> > One unit test issue for link_bonding_rssconf
> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1070, we verify below patch passed
> on LTS20.11.
> > please merge it into 20.11:
> > https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=v19.11.13-
> rc3&id=f0bda10005
> > d89d18f69055cb9e7780c7702a8292
> > ethdev: fix RSS update when RSS is disabled Thanks.
> >
> 
> Thanks for reminding.
> The patch scanning scripts excluded this patch because it "fixes" patch of the
> year 2021. Merged.
> 
> Also merged a vhost async patch from Jiayu, let me know if any concerns:
> 	https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2022-August/039949.html
> 
Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk20.11.6-rc1 validation test is almost finished. No critical issue is found.
And also verify below bugs' patch passed for latest LTS20.11(https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=20.11&id=28596f9ebca8e04f6711458839629960afcc6091).
  Bug 1066 - [dpdk20.11.6-rc1] dpdk20.11.6-rc1 compiled failed with kmods enable
  Bug 1070 - [dpdk-20.11.6-rc1] unit_tests_eal/link_bonding_rssconf: link_bonding_rssconf_autotest test failed
# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* Build & CFLAG compile: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Fedora36, RHEL8.4, etc.
- All test done. One known bug: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991 [19.11] net/ena build failure with gcc 12, still no 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.	
		
# 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 passed.
  *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
    - All test done.

Best regards,
Yu Jiang