Re: 20.11.9 patches review and test

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

On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 at 12:52, Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe@microsoft.com>;
> > Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>; benjamin.walker@intel.com; David
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> > Subject: 20.11.9 patches review and test
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.9.
> >
> > The planned date for the final release is the 14th of August 2023.
> >
> > 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=v20.11.9-rc1
> >
> > These patches are located at branch 20.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Luca Boccassi
> >
> > ---
>
>  Hello,
>
> Apologies for the last-minute reply.
>
> We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on v20.11.9-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.
> - 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.
> - Hardware LRO tests.
>
> Functional tests ran on these cards:
> - NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.04-1.1.3.0 / Firmware: 22.37.1014
> - NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.04-1.1.3.0 / Firmware: 28.37.1014
> - DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 2.0.2 / Firmware: 24.37.1300
>
> Build tests (all passed):
> - Ubuntu 20.04.6 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.04-1.1.3.0.
> - Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core master (aba30bd).
> - Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core v28.0.
> - Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core master (aba30bd) (i386).
> - Fedora 38 with rdma-core v44.0.
> - Fedora 39 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v46.0.
> - OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 with rdma-core v42.0.
> - Windows Server 2019 with Clang 11.0.0.
>
> We see warnings while restarting ports in testpmd application if MPRQ is enabled, and we think it's caused by this backported change:
> net/mlx5: fix MPRQ stride size to accommodate the headroom (https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=81002988e01)
> This is the only issue we found that might've been caused by changes in this release. Hope I can update by tomorrow.
>
> We're investigating some internal test failures that were caused by environment changes, but we have a high pass rate in our regression testing overall.
>
> Thanks,
> Ali

Thank you, I'll wait for the conclusion on that, if I need to revert
that change let me know.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi