RE: 20.11.5 patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>]

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> Subject: 20.11.5 patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.5.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is the 4th 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,

The following covers the functional tests that we ran with Nvidia hardware on 20.11.5-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:
  Items:
  - eth
  - geneve
  - gre
  - gre_key
  - gtp
  - icmp
  - icmp6
  - ipv4
  - ipv6
  - ipv6_frag_ext
  - mark
  - meta
  - mpls
  - nvgre
  - tag
  - tcp
  - udp
  - vlan
  - vxlan
  - vxlan_gpe
  Actions:
  - age (shared and non-shared)
  - count
  - dec_tcp_ack
  - dec_tcp_seq
  - dec_ttl
  - drop
  - flag
  - inc_tcp_ack
  - inc_tcp_seq
  - jump
  - mark
  - queue
  - raw_decap
  - raw_encap
  - rss (shared and non-shared)
  - set_ipv4_dscp
  - set_ipv4_dst
  - set_ipv4_src
  - set_ipv6_dscp
  - set_ipv6_dst
  - set_ipv6_src
  - set_mac_dst
  - set_mac_src
  - set_meta
  - set_tag
  - set_tp_dst
  - set_tp_src
  - set_ttl
  - vxlan_decap
  - vxlan_encap

- 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:
- 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
- NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2 / Firmware: 22.32.2004

Compilation tests with multiple configurations in the following OS/driver combinations are also passing (except for the cases below):
- 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 (ce2f7ad) (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 (ce2f7ad).
- CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2.
- CentOS 8 8.4.2105 with rdma-core master (ce2f7ad).
- OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 with rdma-core v31.0.
- Windows Server 2019 with Clang 11.0.0.

Build failures:
- Bug 984 - [20.11] pmdinfogen build failure with gcc 4.8.5 (https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=984)
- Bug 986 - [20.11] net/cxgbe build failure with gcc 12 (https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=986)
- Bug 925 - lib/vhost build failure with gcc 12 (https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925)

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

Thanks,
Ali