Re: [dpdk-stable] 20.11.2 patches review and test

["Xueming(Steven) Li" <xuemingl@nvidia.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>
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> To: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>; stable@dpdk.org
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> Subject: RE: 20.11.2 patches review and test
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2021 2:28 AM
> > To: stable@dpdk.org
> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe@microsoft.com>;
> > Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>; Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>;
> > benjamin.walker@intel.com; David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>;
> > hariprasad.govindharajan@intel.com; Hemant Agrawal
> > <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>; Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>; Jerin
> > Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>; John McNamara <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>; pingx.yu@intel.com; qian.q.xu@intel.com; Raslan
> > Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon
> > <thomas@monjalon.net>; yuan.peng@intel.com; zhaoyan.chen@intel.com;
> > Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> > Subject: 20.11.2 patches review and test
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.2.
> >
> > The planned date for the final release is 6th 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 release candidate tarball can be found at:
> >
> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v20.11.2-rc2
> >
> > These patches are located at branch 20.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.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
>   - gre
>   - gre_key
>     gtp
>   - icmp
>   - icmp6
>   - ipv4
>   - ipv6
>   - ipv6_ext
>   - ipv6_frag_ext
>   - meta
>   - mpls
>   - nvgre
>   - tcp
>   - udp
>   - vlan
>   - vxlan
>   - vxlan-gpe
>   Actions:
>   - age (shared and non-shared)
>   - count
>   - dec_tcp_ack
>   - dec_tcp_seq
>   - dec_ttl
>   - drop
>   - flag
>   - inc_tcp_ack
>   - inc_tcp_seq
>   - jump
>   - mark
>   - meter
>   - of_pop_vlan
>   - of_push_vlan
>   - of_set_vlan_pcp
>   - of_set_vlan_vid
>   - queue
>   - raw_decap
>   - raw_encap
>   - rss (shared and non-shared)
>   - set_ipv4_dscp
>   - set_ipv4_dst
>   - set_ipv4_src
>   - set_ipv6_dscp
>   - set_ipv6_dst
>   - set_ipv6_src
>   - set_mac_dst
>   - set_mac_src
>   - set_meta
>   - set_tag
>   - set_tp_dst
>   - set_tp_src
>   - set_ttl
>   - vxlan_decap
>   - vxlan_encap
> 
> - 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.
> 
> 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
> 
> 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.
> - 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 the clang build is failing in Fedora 35 due to the following issue:
> - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745
> 
> We don't see any other critical issues blocking this release.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ali

Thank you very much!