Re: 20.11.7 patches review and test

[Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>]

Thank you!

The two compilation issues have been fixed. Waiting on a resolution on
the other two issues. Should they be considered blockers and delay the
release, if a fix is not available by next week?

On Wed, 7 Dec 2022 at 10:22, Jiang, YuX <yux.jiang@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk20.11.7-rc1 validation test rate is 95%. No critical issue is found.
> 2 new bugs are found, 1 new issue is under confirming by Intel Dev.
> New bugs:
>   1, Compilation error compiling dpdk with vm_power_manager sample app  -- Intel dev is under investigating.
>   2, vf_interrupt_pmd/nic_interrupt_VF_vfio_pci: l3fwd-power Wake up failed on X722 37d0
>         - Find on DPDK22.11, it has fix patch: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20221117065726.277672-1-kaisenx.you@intel.com/
>         - Patch is not merged into main, its fix can be applied on LTS20.11.7-rc1 and tested passed.
>   3, inline ipsec: test failed on LTS20.11.7  -- Intel validation owner and dev are under investigating.
>
> # 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 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.
> - One issue is under confirming.
>
> # 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
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: luca.boccassi@gmail.com <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
> > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2022 6:53 PM
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> > 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
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> > Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>; Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>; Pei
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> > Chen, Zhaoyan <zhaoyan.chen@intel.com>
> > Subject: 20.11.7 patches review and test
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.7.
> >
> > The planned date for the final release is the 12th of December.
> >
> > 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=v20.11.7-rc1
> >
> > These patches are located at branch 20.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Luca Boccassi
> >
> > ---