Re: 21.11.8 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>]

On 18/09/2024 08:50, Ali Alnubani wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2024 3:38 PM
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>> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe@microsoft.com>; Ali
>> Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>; David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>;
>> Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>; Ian Stokes
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>> <john.mcnamara@intel.com>; Ju-Hyoung Lee <juhlee@microsoft.com>; Kevin
>> Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>; Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>; Pei Zhang
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>> Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas@monjalon.net>;
>> yanghliu@redhat.com
>> Subject: 21.11.8 patches review and test
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.8.
>>
>> The planned date for the final release is 18th September.
>>
>> 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=v21.11.8-rc1
>>
>> These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> ---
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on 21.11.8-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 (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-24.07-0.6.1.0 / Firmware: 22.42.1000
> - NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.07-0.6.1.0 / Firmware: 28.42.1000
> - DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 2.8 / Firmware: 24.42.1000
> 
> Additionally, we ran build tests with multiple configurations on the following OS/driver combinations (all passed):
> - Debian 12 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.07-0.6.1.0.
> - Ubuntu 20.04.6 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.07-0.6.1.0.
> - Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core master (dd9c687).
> - Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core v28.0.
> - Fedora 40 with rdma-core v48.0.
> - Fedora 42 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v51.0.
> - OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 with rdma-core v49.1.
> 
> We don't see new issues caused by the changes in this release.
> 

Thanks Ali for this and your help. I will add to the release notes,
Kevin.

> Thanks,
> Ali