RE: 22.11.2 patches review and test

["Xu, HailinX" <hailinx.xu@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xu, HailinX <hailinx.xu@intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2023 4:10 PM
> To: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>; stable@dpdk.org
> 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
> <ian.stokes@intel.com>; Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>; Mcnamara, John
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> Zhang <pezhang@redhat.com>; Xu, Qian Q <qian.q.xu@intel.com>; Raslan
> Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>; Thomas Monjalon
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> Subject: RE: 22.11.2 patches review and test
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2023 5:34 PM
> > To: stable@dpdk.org
> > Cc: xuemingl@nvidia.com; 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 <ian.stokes@intel.com>; Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>;
> > Mcnamara, John <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>; Xu, Qian
> > Q <qian.q.xu@intel.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>;
> Thomas
> > Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; Yanghang Liu <yanghliu@redhat.com>;
> > Peng, Yuan <yuan.peng@intel.com>; Chen, Zhaoyan
> > <zhaoyan.chen@intel.com>
> > Subject: 22.11.2 patches review and test
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 22.11.2.
> >
> > The planned date for the final release is 5th MAY.
> >
> > 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=v22.11.2-rc1
> >
> > These patches are located at branch 22.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> 
> Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk22.11.2-rc1 validation test
> rate is 85%. No critical issue is found.
> # 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, Ubuntu22.04, Fedora35, Fedora37, RHEL8.6, RHEL8.4,
> FreeBSD13.1, SUSE15, CentOS7.9, openEuler22.03-SP1  etc.
> - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> * 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 new dpdk issue is found.
> * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test -
> QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
> - Execution rate is 90%. No new dpdk issue is found.
> 
> # 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 8.0, etc.
> - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> * Cryptodev:
>   *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev
> ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
>     - Execution rate is 75%. No new dpdk issue is found.
>   *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput
> Performance/Cryptodev Latency, etc.
>     - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> 
> Regards,
> Xu, Hailin
> 
Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk22.11.2-rc1 all validation test done. No critical issue is found.
1 new issue is under confirming by Intel Dev.
New bugs: --20.11.8-rc1 and 21.11.4-rc1 also has this issue
    1. some of the virtio tests are failing: -- Intel dev is 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, Ubuntu22.04, Fedora35, Fedora37, RHEL8.6, RHEL8.4, FreeBSD13.1, SUSE15, CentOS7.9, openEuler22.03-SP1 etc.
- All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
* 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 new dpdk issue is found.
* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
		
# 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 dpdk issue is found.
* Cryptodev: 
  *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
    - All test done. Found bug1.
  *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance/Cryptodev Latency, etc.
    - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.

Regards,
Xu, Hailin