RE: 19.11.14 patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>]

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> Subject: 19.11.14 patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.14.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is Tue 12th December 2022.
> 
> 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=v19.11.14-rc1
> 
> 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>
> 
> ---

Hello,

We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on 19.11.14-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:
  Items: eth / ipv4 / ipv6 / tcp / udp / icmp / gre / nvgre / geneve / vxlan / 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-5.8-1.0.1.1 / Firmware: 14.32.1010
- NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-1.0.1.1 / Firmware: 16.35.1012

Additionally, we ran compilation tests with multiple configurations in the following OS/driver combinations, and they are passing:
- Ubuntu 22.04.1 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-1.1.2.1.
- Ubuntu 20.04.5 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-1.1.2.1.
- Ubuntu 20.04.5 with rdma-core master (76cfaa1).
- 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 (76cfaa1) (i386).
- Ubuntu 16.04.7 with rdma-core v22.7.
- CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (76cfaa1).
- CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-1.0.1.1.
- CentOS 8 8.4.2105 with rdma-core master (76cfaa1).
- OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 with rdma-core v38.1.

We don't see any issues introduced by changes in this release.

Builds on Fedora with gcc 12 and clang 15 are failing.

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=v19.11.13&id=104f5e8eb81e975809476fe894fc2781538ab752

The following patch was missed in 19.11.13:
https://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/DM4PR12MB516765207EE7A8999B284B5EDA1A9@DM4PR12MB5167.namprd12.prod.outlook.com/

Thanks,
Ali