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> Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>; benjamin.walker@intel.com; David
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> Subject: 19.11.12 patches review and test
>
> Hi all,
>
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.12.
>
> The planned date for the final release is 7th of April.
>
> 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.
>

Hello,

We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on 19.11.12-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: eth / ipv4 / ipv6 / tcp / udp / icmp / gre / nvgre / geneve / vxlan / mplsoudp / mplsogre
  Actions: drop / queue / rss / mark / flag / jump / count / raw_encap / raw_decap / vxlan_encap / vxlan_decap / NAT / dec_ttl
- 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.

Functional tests ran on:
- NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2 / Firmware: 14.32.1010
- NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Kernel: 5.17.0 / Driver: rdma-core v39.0 / Firmware: 14.32.1010
- NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2 / Firmware: 16.32.1010
- NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Kernel: 5.17.0 / Driver: v39.0 / Firmware: 16.32.1010

We also ran compilation tests with multiple configurations in the following OS/driver combinations:
- Ubuntu 20.04.4 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2.
- Ubuntu 20.04.4 with rdma-core v39.0.
- 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 (91004ec) (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
- CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (91004ec).
- CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2.
- CentOS 8 8.4.2105 with rdma-core master (91004ec).
- OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 with rdma-core v31.0.

Build failures:
- Bug 912 - [19.11.11-rc1] net/qede build failure with make and clang 13 (https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=912)
- Bug 985 - [19.11] librte_eal build error with gcc 12 (https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=985)
- Bug 991 - [19.11] net/ena build failure with gcc 12 (https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991)

We don't see any other new issues in this release.

Thanks,
Ali