[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] 18.11.3 (LTS) patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor]

On 20/10/2019 14:16, Ali Alnubani wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Replaying here because I can't find the first email in the thread.
> 
> Regarding testing results with Mellanox devices, we did basic functional testing with testpmd, and don't see any issues.
> 
> Testing matrix:
> - NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL 7.4 / Kernel: 5.3.0 / Driver: rdma-core v25.1 / fw: 16.26.1040
> - NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL 7.4 / Kernel: 5.3.0 / Driver: rdma-core v25.1 / fw: 14.26.1040
> - NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL 7.4 / Kernel: 3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.7-1.0.0.1 / fw: 16.26.1040
> - NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL 7.4 / Kernel: 3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.7-1.0.0.1 / fw: 14.26.1040
> 
> I apologize for the delay in reporting our results.
> 

No problems, thanks for the testing Ali,

Kevin.

> Thanks,
> Ali
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:55 PM
>> To: Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.com>
>> Cc: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>; Ju-Hyoung Lee
>> <juhlee at microsoft.com>; stable at dpdk.org; dev at dpdk.org; Akhil Goyal
>> <akhil.goyal at nxp.com>; Ali Alnubani <alialnu at mellanox.com>;
>> benjamin.walker at intel.com; David Christensen <drc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>;
>> Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>; Ian Stokes
>> <ian.stokes at intel.com>; Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>; John McNamara
>> <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>; Pei Zhang
>> <pezhang at redhat.com>; pingx.yu at intel.com; qian.q.xu at intel.com; Raslan
>> Darawsheh <rasland at mellanox.com>; Thomas Monjalon
>> <thomas at monjalon.net>; yuan.peng at intel.com; zhaoyan.chen at intel.com
>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] 18.11.3 (LTS) patches review and test
>>
>> Azure image: 'Canonical UbuntuServer 18.04-DAILY-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: FAILED
>>
>> Hi Abhishek,
>> since you use the daily LTS image and see such a significant change compared
>> to before, could it by any chance be that this made you switch from kernel
>> 4.15 to 5.0.
>> Because by the normal HWE policy [1] this got into Bionic rebuilds and it
>> seems [2] the same is true for linux-azure kernel flavours.
>>
>> Could you check your logs if the kernel version changed between the old and
>> the new runs?
>> An alternative might be to rerun 18.11.2 to see if it drops as well, which might
>> indicate that it wasn't 18.11.2 -> 18.11.3 but something else like the kernel.
>>
>> Not sure if that old kernel is ok, but you always can go back to what a version
>> was released with. So in this case package linux-azure=4.15.0.1009.9 is still
>> there and you could try
>> 18.11.3 with that maybe?
>>
>> Let me know if you need help changing kernels there.
>>
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