21.11.9 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor]

On 09/12/2024 03:44, Yanghang Liu wrote:
> I tested below 18 scenarios on RHEL 9.2 and didn't find any new dpdk issues.
> 

Thanks Yanghang. I will add a note about the validation to the release
notes.

Kevin.

>    - VM with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size):
>    PASS
>    - VM with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size) :
>    PASS
>    - VM with device assignment(VF) throughput testing: PASS
>    - PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing: PASS
>    - PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing: PASS
>    - PVP vhost-user 1Q - cross numa node throughput testing: PASS
>    - VM with vhost-user 2 queues throughput testing: PASS
>    - vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server(qemu reconnect):
>    PASS
>    - vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server(ovs reconnect): PASS
>    - PVP  reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: PASS
>    - PVP 1Q live migration testing: PASS
>    - PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing: PASS
>    - VM with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing: PASS
>    - VM with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M): PASS
>    - VM with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing: PASS
>    - VM with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing: PASS
>    - Host PF + DPDK testing: PASS
>    - Host VF + DPDK testing: PASS
> 
> 
> Test Versions:
> 
>    - qemu-kvm-7.2
>    - kernel 5.14
>    - libvirt 9.0
>    - git describe
>       - v21.11.9-rc1
>    - git log
> 
> commit f197f1e13ccfb74c92ad05602443dd0984f39540
> 
> Author: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
> 
> Date:   Wed Dec 4 15:24:08 2024 +0000
> 
> version: 21.11.9-rc1
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
> 
> 
>    - Test device : X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)
> 
> Tested-by: Yanghang Liu <yanghliu at redhat.com>
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 11:58 PM Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.9.
>>
>> The planned date for the final release is 17th December 2024.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> A release candidate tarball can be found at:
>>
>>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v21.11.9-rc1
>>
>> These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Kevin
>>