Re: [dpdk-stable] 19.11.9 patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani <alialnu@oss.nvidia.com>]

Hi,

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> From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
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> Subject: 19.11.9 patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.9.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is 2nd July.
> 
> 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 renewed release candidate tarball can be found at:
> 
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v19.11.9-rc3
> 
> These patches are located at branch 19.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> 

The following covers the functional tests that we ran on Mellanox hardware for this release:
- 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 / vlan / ipv4 / ipv6 / tcp / udp / icmp / gre / nvgre / vxlan / ip in ip / mplsoudp / mplsogre
  Actions: drop / queue / rss / mark / flag / jump / count / raw_encap / raw_decap / vxlan_encap / vxlan_decap / NAT / dec_ttl
- 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.

Functional tests ran on:
- NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1 / Firmware: 14.30.1004
- NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1 / Firmware: 16.30.1004

We discovered 2 new issues due to environment changes:
- can't create some rules with count action, fixed by https://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/20210621145105.963179-1-lmargalit@nvidia.com/T/#u.
- rte_flow hit counter doesn't increment, still discussing this internally.

Compilation tests with multiple configurations in the following OS/driver combinations are also passing:
- Ubuntu 20.04.2 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1.
- Ubuntu 20.04.2 with rdma-core master (a66e2a5).
- Ubuntu 20.04.2 with rdma-core v28.0.
- Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core v17.1.
- Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core master (a66e2a5) (i386).
- Ubuntu 16.04.7 with rdma-core v22.7.
- Fedora 34 with rdma-core v35.0 (only with gcc).
- Fedora 35 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v35.0 (only with gcc).
- CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (a66e2a5).
- CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1.
- CentOS 8 8.3.2011 with rdma-core master (7f2d460).
- OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 with rdma-core v31.0.

Note that clang builds are failing in Fedora 34 and 35 due to the following issues:
- https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745
- https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733

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

Thanks,
Ali