Re: 22.11.5 patches review and test

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

On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 at 13:41, Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
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> > Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>; benjamin.walker@intel.com; David
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> > Subject: 22.11.5 patches review and test
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 22.11.5.
> >
> > The planned date for the final release is April 18th.
> >
> > 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=v22.11.5-rc1
> >
> > These patches are located at branch 22.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Luca Boccassi
> >
> > ---
>
> Hello,
>
> We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on v22.11.5-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 (https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#supported-hardware-offloads)
> - 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.
> - Buffer Split tests.
> - Tx scheduling tests.
>
> Functional tests ran on:
> - NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.01-0.3.3.1 / Firmware: 22.40.1000
> - NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.01-0.3.3.1 / Firmware: 28.40.1000
> - DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 2.6.0 / Firmware: 24.40.1000
>
> Additionally, we ran build tests with multiple configurations on the following OS/driver combinations (all passed):
> - Ubuntu 20.04.6 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.01-0.3.3.1.
> - Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core master (4b08a22).
> - Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core v28.0.
> - Fedora 38 with rdma-core v44.0.
> - Fedora 40 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v48.0.
> - OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 with rdma-core v42.0.
> - Windows Server 2019 with Clang 16.0.6.
>
> > Dariusz Sosnowski (9):
> [..]
> >       net/mlx5: fix flow counter cache starvation
>
> We're investigating a segfault that might have been caused by this change. We don't see other issues in this release.
>
> Thanks,
> Ali

Thank you, I'll wait for an update on the segfault before doing a release then.