Re: 19.11.12 patches review and test

[Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>]

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On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 12:00 PM Christian Ehrhardt <
christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> wrote:

>
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> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 1:04 PM Jiang, YuX <yux.jiang@intel.com> wrote:
>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com <
>> christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
>> > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2022 7:55 PM
>> > To: 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>; hariprasad.govindharajan@intel.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>; Peng, Yuan <yuan.peng@intel.com>; Chen,
>> > Zhaoyan <zhaoyan.chen@intel.com>
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > A release candidate tarball can be found at:
>> >
>> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v19.11.12-rc1
>> >
>> > These patches are located at branch 19.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
>> >
>> Update the test status for Intel part. DPDK19.11.12-rc1 test rate is 60%,
>> totally find four defects as below:
>>
>
> Thank you for all your work!
>
>
>> Bug1:[dpdk-19.11.12] metering_and_policing/ipv4_HASH_table_RFC2698:
>> unable to forward packets normally. Intel Dev is investigating.
>> Bug2:[LTS DPDK-19.11.12-rc1] cryptodev_qat_asym_autotest is failing.
>> Intel Dev is investigating.
>>
>
> Both are very interesting, could you make sure that by next Wednesday (6th
> of April) there is feedback on this thread if this is either:
>

Hi Jiang YuX,
by now everything else is in place to tag the 19.11.12 release tomorrow,
therefore I wanted to ping for these updates so that we can make the right
decision to release or delay.


> 1. fixable, with a pointer to a fix
> 2. not fixed yet, but also not too bad (or not a regression to the former
> state) and thereby does not block 19.11.12
> 3. not fixed yet, but being very severe blocking 19.11.12, but identified
> the offending commit that shall be reverted
> 4. not fixed yet, but being very severe blocking 19.11.12, and an ETA of a
> fix/mitigation
>
> Based on that outcome we then need to decide if we need to tag -rc2 and
> another round of verifications.
>
> Bug3:https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=978 [dpdk-19.11.12-rc1]
>> drivers/net/qede make build failed on Fedora35 with Clang13.0.0.
>> > Bad commit from Vanshika Shukla <vanshika.shukla@nxp.com>, no fix yet.
>>
>
> Thanks for identifying this one.
> As in the past, we are willing to take build time fixes for newer compiler
> stacks, but we are not blocked on releasing 19.11.12 unless platforms
> formerly building and using it are affected.
>
>
>> Bug4:https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=977 [dpdk-19.11.12-rc1]
>> bnxt_stats meson&&make build Error on Fedora35-64 and Ubuntu2110-64 with
>> gcc11.2.1&&gcc11.2.0.
>> > Has fix (
>> https://github.com/cpaelzer/dpdk-stable-queue/commit/f17a5eb33a2fec2f33476743f56d1fb2d37ca3b7.patch)
>> and verify passed.
>>
>
> Yes thanks, this one is indeed already applied
>
>
>>
>> # Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
>> * Build: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang/ICC
>> version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Fedora35, RHEL8.4,
>> etc.
>> - All test done. Two new bugs are found, and one known bug(
>> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747)
>> * PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including
>> RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
>> - Execution rate is 30%, no new issue is found.
>> * VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including
>> VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
>> - Execution rate is 30%, no new issue is found.
>> * PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package
>> Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx, etc.
>> - All test done. No new 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.
>> - On going.
>> # 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, 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/ etc.
>> - On going.
>> * Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance
>> /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
>> - On going.
>>
>> BRs
>> Yu Jiang
>>
>
>
> --
> Christian Ehrhardt
> Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
> Canonical Ltd
>


-- 
Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd

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