RE: 20.11.8 patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 4:02 PM
> To: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org; dev@dpdk.org; John McNamara
> <john.mcnamara@intel.com>; Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>;
> Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon
> (EXTERNAL) <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Subject: Re: 20.11.8 patches review and test
> 
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 at 10:22, Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com> wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 6:15 PM
> > > To: luca.boccassi@gmail.com; stable@dpdk.org
> > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe
> <Abhishek.Marathe@microsoft.com>;
> > > benjamin.walker@intel.com; David Christensen
> <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>;
> > > Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>; Ian Stokes
> > > <ian.stokes@intel.com>; Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>; John
> McNamara
> > > <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>; qian.q.xu@intel.com; Raslan
> Darawsheh
> > > <rasland@nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL)
> > > <thomas@monjalon.net>; Yanghang Liu <yanghliu@redhat.com>;
> > > yuan.peng@intel.com; zhaoyan.chen@intel.com
> > > Subject: RE: 20.11.8 patches review and test
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: luca.boccassi@gmail.com <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
> > > > Sent: Friday, March 31, 2023 9:20 PM
> > > > To: stable@dpdk.org
> > > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe
> > > <Abhishek.Marathe@microsoft.com>;
> > > > Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>; benjamin.walker@intel.com; David
> > > > Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Hemant Agrawal
> > > > <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>; Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>;
> Jerin
> > > > Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>; John McNamara
> > > <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>; qian.q.xu@intel.com; Raslan Darawsheh
> > > > <rasland@nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL)
> > > > <thomas@monjalon.net>; Yanghang Liu <yanghliu@redhat.com>;
> > > > yuan.peng@intel.com; zhaoyan.chen@intel.com
> > > > Subject: 20.11.8 patches review and test
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.8.
> > > >
> > > > The planned date for the final release is April 17th.
> > > >
> > > > 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=v20.11.8-rc1
> > > >
> > > > These patches are located at branch 20.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> > > >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Luca Boccassi
> > > >
> > > > ---
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on v20.11.8-
> 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:
> > > - NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-
> 5.9-
> > > 0.5.6.0 / Firmware: 22.36.1010
> > > - NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.9-
> > > 0.5.6.0 / Firmware: 22.36.1010
> > > - DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 1.5.1 / Firmware: 24.35.2000
> > >
> > > Additionally, we ran compilation tests with multiple configurations in the
> > > following OS/driver combinations:
> > > - Ubuntu 20.04.5 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.9-0.5.6.0.
> > > - Ubuntu 20.04.5 with rdma-core master (f0a079f).
> > > - Ubuntu 20.04.5 with rdma-core v28.0.
> > > - Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core v17.1.
> > > - Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core master (f0a079f) (i386).
> > > - Fedora 37 with rdma-core v41.0.
> > > - Fedora 39 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v44.0.
> > > - CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (f0a079f).
> > > - CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.9-0.5.6.0.
> > > - CentOS 8 8.4.2105 with rdma-core master (f0a079f).
> > > - OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 with rdma-core v38.1.
> > > - Windows Server 2019 with Clang 11.0.0.
> > >
> > > We don't see new issues caused by the changes in this release.
> > >
> > > Please note that not all the functional tests mentioned above fall under
> > > "Basic functionality with testpmd" like reported in the release notes for
> > > previous releases:
> > > https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-
> > >
> stable/commit/?h=v20.11.7&id=62865fef48cb93042e8b9f85821eb02e1031e8f
> > > 0
> > > Some of them test other applications.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ali
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I see this documentation build failure on Fedora 37:
> >
> > $ ninja-build -C build doc
> > [..]
> > [2/4] Generating doc/api/doxygen with a custom command
> > FAILED: doc/api/html
> > /root/dpdk/doc/api/generate_doxygen.sh doc/api/doxy-api.conf
> doc/api/html /root/dpdk/doc/api/doxy-html-custom.sh
> > /root/dpdk/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev_pmd.h:489: error: found
> documented return type for rte_cryptodev_pmd_callback_process that
> does not return anything (warning treated as error, aborting now)
> > [..]
> > ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
> 
> I cannot reproduce this on Debian. Does it start working again if you
> revert commit 6500e9e4d8d556a3d29c26b5fe2c9d5f2c6acd1a ?

It doesn't reproduce for me on Ubuntu 20.04.
Reverting the commit you pointed to doesn't resolve it. I see now that it reproduces on 20.11.7 as well.

Meson: 1.0.1
Doxygen: 1.9.5