[dpdk-dev] 18.11.6 (LTS) patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani]

Hi,

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> Subject: 18.11.6 (LTS) patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 18.11.6.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is 31st January.
> 
> 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.
> 

The following covers the tests that we ran on Mellanox hardware for this version:
- Verify sending and receiving multiple types of traffic.
- testpmd xstats counter tests.
- testpmd timestamp tests.
- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
- RTE flow and flow_director tests.
- Some RSS tests.
- VLAN stripping and insertion tests.
- Checksum and TSO tests.
- ptype tests.
- Multi-process tests.

The tests ran on (OS: RHEL7.4 | Kernel: Linux 3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64 | Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.7-3.2.9.0).

NICs tested:
- ConnectX-5 | Firmware: 16.26.4012
- ConnectX-4 Lx | Firmware: 14.26.4012

Regards,
Ali