Re: 21.11.4 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>]

On 19/04/2023 14:24, Ali Alnubani wrote:
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>> Subject: 21.11.4 patches review and test
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.4.
>>
>> The planned date for the final release is 25th 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.
>>
>> A release candidate tarball can be found at:
>>
>>      https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v21.11.4-rc1
>>
>> These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>>      https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> ---
> 
> We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on 21.11.4-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.
> - Regex application tests.
> - Buffer Split tests.
> - Tx scheduling 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.
> 

Great, thanks for testing and reporting Ali.
Kevin.

> 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=v21.11.3&id=31608e4db56893c896375288671b5ee38723a211
> Some of them test other applications.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ali