[dpdk-dev] 19.11.6 patches review and test

[Luca Boccassi]

On Wed, 2020-12-16 at 20:34 +0000, Ali Alnubani wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: luca.boccassi at gmail.com <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2020 11:39 AM
> > To: stable at dpdk.org
> > Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.com>;
> > 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
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> > <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; Ju-Hyoung Lee <juhlee at microsoft.com>;
> > Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.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>; NBU-
> > Contact-Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>; yuan.peng at intel.com;
> > zhaoyan.chen at intel.com
> > Subject: 19.11.6 patches review and test
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.6.
> > 
> > The planned date for the final release is December 17.
> > 
> > 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 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.
> - Some RSS tests.
> - VLAN stripping and insertion tests.
> - Checksum and TSO tests.
> - ptype tests.
> - l3fwd-power example application tests.
> - Multi-process example applications tests.
> 
> The tests ran on:
> - NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.1-2.5.8.0 / Firmware: 14.28.2006
> - NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.1-2.5.8.0 / Firmware: 16.28.2006
> 
> Compilation tests in the following OS/driver combinations are also passing:
> - Ubuntu 20.04 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.1-2.5.8.0.
> - Ubuntu 20.04 with rdma-core master (6a5c1b7).
> - Ubuntu 20.04 with rdma-core v28.0.
> - Ubuntu 18.04 with rdma-core v17.1.
> - Ubuntu 18.04 with rdma-core master (6a5c1b7) (i386).
> - Ubuntu 16.04 with rdma-core v22.7.
> - Fedora 32 with rdma-core v32.0.
> - CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (6a5c1b7).
> - CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.1-2.5.8.0.
> - CentOS 8 8.3.2011 with rdma-core master (6a5c1b7).
> - openSUSE Leap 15.2 with rdma-core v27.1.
> 
> The testing was done on v19.11.6-rc1 with the following patch applied:
> http://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/1608132648-15469-1-git-send-email-viacheslavo@nvidia.com/T/#u
> 
> We don't see any critical issues blocking the release other than the debug build failure Viacheslav fixed.

Thank you!

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi