Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] 19.11.8 patches review and test

["Chen, BoX C" <box.c.chen@intel.com>]

Hi Ehrhardt,

Update the dpdk 19.11.8-rc1 test result for Intel part. We tested build and basic cases, no bug was found.

Regards,
Bo Chen

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> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] 19.11.8 patches review and test
> 
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 9:44 AM Christian Ehrhardt
> <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.8.
> >
> > The planned date for the final release is 16th 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.
> >
> > Note:
> > This is a special interim release not following the releases of recent
> > mainline (that was 19.11.7). Instead this addresses issues with
> > >=19.11.6 identified and discussed in:
> >   http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-March/029418.html
> >
> > Testing-Note:
> > The only changes this release has over the former one are about linking.
> > We switch back to how it was <=19.11.6 since it regressed some use-cases.
> > The most known one at the moment is building OVS 2.13 vs a DPDK that
> > was built with meson. It seems that make-based DPDK builds are
> unaffected.
> > Due to that this verification phase should not so much be about the
> > usual performance, functionality, ... (I'm happy if you run those, but
> > they are not strictly required). Instead the focus should mostly about
> > buildability via the various possible combinations that exist.
> 
> I can confirm that with 19.11.8 the build of OpenVswitch vs a meson-built
> DPDK works again.
> Tested on OVS 2.13.3 vs DPDK 19.11.8-rc1 in Ubuntu 20.04 and 20.10 on all
> supported architectures (amd64,armhf,arm64 and ppc64el - the others
> s390x/riscv64 don't have DPDK built).
> 
> 
> > A release candidate tarball can be found at:
> >
> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v19.11.8-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>
> >
> > ---
> > Christian Ehrhardt (7):
> >       Revert "Revert "Revert "build/pkg-config: prevent overlinking"""
> >       Revert "Revert "Revert "build/pkg-config: improve static linking flags"""
> >       Revert "Revert "Revert "build/pkg-config: output drivers first for static
> build"""
> >       Revert "Revert "Revert "build/pkg-config: move pkg-config file
> creation"""
> >       Revert "Revert "Revert "build: always link whole DPDK static libraries"""
> >       Revert "Revert "Revert "devtools: test static linkage with pkg-config"""
> >       Regenerate meson.build changes required due to reverts
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Christian Ehrhardt
> Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
> Canonical Ltd