[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 19.11-rc4

[Luca Boccassi]

Hi,

Here's the report from the automated Jenkins pipeline at MSFT - QA team
will be out for Thanksgiving this week, they can chip in next week for
more details, but I do not see any blocking issue being highlighted -
just the usual small performance issue that is already being
investigated separately.


DPDK v19.11-rc4 was validated on Azure for Canonical UbuntuServer 16.04-LTS latest, Canonical UbuntuServer 18.04-DAILY-LTS latest, RedHat RHEL 7-RAW latest, RedHat RHEL 7.5 latest, Openlogic CentOS 7.5 latest, SUSE SLES 15 latest.
Tested with Mellanox and netvsc poll-mode drivers.
The tests were executed using LISAv2 framework ( https://github.com/LIS/LISAv2 ).

Test case description:

* VERIFY-DPDK-COMPLIANCE - verifies kernel is supported and that the build is successful
* VERIFY-DPDK-BUILD-AND-TESTPMD-TEST - verifies using testpmd that packets can be sent from a VM to another VM
* VERIFY-SRIOV-FAILSAFE-FOR-DPDK - disables/enables Accelerated Networking for the NICs under test and makes sure DPDK works in both scenarios
* VERIFY-DPDK-FAILSAFE-DURING-TRAFFIC - disables/enables Accelerated Networking for the NICs while generating traffic using testpmd

* PERF-DPDK-FWD-PPS-DS15 - verifies DPDK forwarding performance using testpmd on 2, 4, 8 cores, rx and io mode on size Standard_DS15_v2
* PERF-DPDK-SINGLE-CORE-PPS-DS4 - verifies DPDK performance using testpmd on 1 core, rx and io mode on size Standard_DS4_v2
* PERF-DPDK-SINGLE-CORE-PPS-DS15 - verifies DPDK performance using testpmd on 1 core, rx and io mode on size Standard_DS15_v2
* PERF-DPDK-MULTICORE-PPS-DS15 - verifies DPDK performance using testpmd on 2, 4, 8 cores, rx and io mode on size Standard_DS15_v2
* PERF-DPDK-MULTICORE-PPS-F32 - verifies DPDK performance using testpmd on 2, 4, 8, 16 cores, rx and io mode on size Standard_F32s_v2

* DPDK-RING-LATENCY - verifies DPDK CPU latency using https://github.com/shemminger/dpdk-ring-ping

* VERIFY-DPDK-PRIMARY-SECONDARY-PROCESSES - verifies primary / secondary processes support for DPDK. Runs only on RHEL and Ubuntu distros with Linux kernel >= 4.20

* VERIFY-DPDK-OVS - builds OVS with DPDK support and tests if the OVS DPDK ports can be created. Runs only on Ubuntu distro.
* VERIFY-DPDK-VPP - builds VPP with DPDK support and tests if the VPP ports are present. Runs only on RHEL and Ubuntu distros.
* VERIFY-DPDK-NFF-GO - builds NFF-GO with DPDK support and runs the functional tests from the NFF-GO repository. Runs only on Ubuntu distro.

 DPDK job exited with status: UNSTABLE. 

Test results for DPDK 'v19.11-rc4' and Azure image: 'Canonical UbuntuServer 16.04-LTS latest': 
 
* PERF-DPDK-SINGLE-CORE-PPS-DS4: FAILED 
* VERIFY-DPDK-OVS: PASSED 
* VERIFY-DPDK-BUILD-AND-TESTPMD-TEST: PASSED 
* VERIFY-SRIOV-FAILSAFE-FOR-DPDK: PASSED 
* PERF-DPDK-MULTICORE-PPS-F32: PASSED 
* VERIFY-DPDK-FAILSAFE-DURING-TRAFFIC: PASSED 

Test results for DPDK 'v19.11-rc4' and Azure image: 'Canonical UbuntuServer 18.04-DAILY-LTS latest': 
 
* PERF-DPDK-SINGLE-CORE-PPS-DS4: PASSED 
* VERIFY-DPDK-OVS: PASSED 
* VERIFY-DPDK-BUILD-AND-TESTPMD-TEST: PASSED 
* VERIFY-SRIOV-FAILSAFE-FOR-DPDK: PASSED 
* PERF-DPDK-MULTICORE-PPS-F32: FAILED 
* VERIFY-DPDK-FAILSAFE-DURING-TRAFFIC: PASSED 

Test results for DPDK 'v19.11-rc4' and Azure image: 'RedHat RHEL 7-RAW latest': 
 
* PERF-DPDK-SINGLE-CORE-PPS-DS4: PASSED 
* VERIFY-DPDK-OVS: SKIPPED 
* VERIFY-DPDK-BUILD-AND-TESTPMD-TEST: PASSED 
* VERIFY-SRIOV-FAILSAFE-FOR-DPDK: PASSED 
* PERF-DPDK-MULTICORE-PPS-F32: FAILED 
* VERIFY-DPDK-FAILSAFE-DURING-TRAFFIC: PASSED 

Test results for DPDK 'v19.11-rc4' and Azure image: 'RedHat RHEL 7.5 latest': 
 
* PERF-DPDK-SINGLE-CORE-PPS-DS4: PASSED 
* VERIFY-DPDK-OVS: SKIPPED 
* VERIFY-DPDK-BUILD-AND-TESTPMD-TEST: PASSED 
* VERIFY-SRIOV-FAILSAFE-FOR-DPDK: PASSED 
* PERF-DPDK-MULTICORE-PPS-F32: PASSED 
* VERIFY-DPDK-FAILSAFE-DURING-TRAFFIC: PASSED 

Test results for DPDK 'v19.11-rc4' and Azure image: 'Openlogic CentOS 7.5 latest': 
 
* PERF-DPDK-SINGLE-CORE-PPS-DS4: PASSED 
* VERIFY-DPDK-OVS: SKIPPED 
* VERIFY-DPDK-BUILD-AND-TESTPMD-TEST: PASSED 
* VERIFY-SRIOV-FAILSAFE-FOR-DPDK: PASSED 
* PERF-DPDK-MULTICORE-PPS-F32: FAILED 
* VERIFY-DPDK-FAILSAFE-DURING-TRAFFIC: PASSED 

Test results for DPDK 'v19.11-rc4' and Azure image: 'SUSE SLES 15 latest': 
 
* PERF-DPDK-SINGLE-CORE-PPS-DS4: FAILED 
* VERIFY-DPDK-OVS: SKIPPED 
* VERIFY-DPDK-BUILD-AND-TESTPMD-TEST: PASSED 
* VERIFY-SRIOV-FAILSAFE-FOR-DPDK: PASSED 
* PERF-DPDK-MULTICORE-PPS-F32: PASSED 
* VERIFY-DPDK-FAILSAFE-DURING-TRAFFIC: PASSED 

On Wed, 2019-11-27 at 00:56 +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	
> https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v19.11-rc4
> 
> 93 patches were integrated.
> 
> The release notes so far:
> 	
> http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.html
> 
> It should be completed with a list of tested hardware.
> 
> This is the last release candidate for DPDK 19.11.
> After -rc4 only critical bug fixes and doc updates should be
> accepted.
> 
> The major release should be done in a couple of days (Thanksgiving?).
> Please share some release validation results
> by replying to this message (at 
> dev at dpdk.org
> ).
> 
> If you are preparing the next release cycle, please send your v1
> patches
> before the 20.02 proposal deadline, which will happen on December
> 6th.
> It is also time to build an estimated roadmap for the next cycles.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi