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AMD General<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN">Please find the AMD platform validation report for DPDK v26.11-rc2.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-IN"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-IN">* Summary:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN">DPDK v26.11-rc2 AMD platform validation is complete.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN">Performance was compared against DPDK v26.07 across 6 workloads on 5 AMD EPYC platforms using Mellanox ConnectX-7 2x200G NICs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN">A total of 4,789 data points were evaluated. Of these, 4,788 points, or 99.98%, are within the acceptance criteria. One data point is marginally outside the acceptance criteria at -5.04%.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN">All 6 workloads, TestPMD, L3FWD, Crypto, Compression, LPM Perf, and MemCpy, passed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-IN"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-IN">* Issues:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN"> None<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-IN"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-IN">* System Tested:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN">Plain Text<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN">Platform Processor Points<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN">Turin Dense EPYC 9745, 128C, 2P 923<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN">Turin Classic EPYC 9755, 128C, 1P 923<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN">Genoa EPYC 9654, 96C, 1P 1001<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN">Siena EPYC 8534P, 64C, 1P 1001<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN">Sorano EPYC 8435, 84C, 1P 941<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-IN">OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-IN">Compiler: GCC 14.2<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-IN">NIC: Mellanox ConnectX-7 2x200G<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-IN">Boost: OFF, except for Siena L3FWD and TestPMD, where Turbo was ON<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-IN"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-IN">* Build & Compile:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN">Build completed successfully on all 5 AMD EPYC platforms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-IN"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-IN">* Function Test Cases:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN">Following workloads were validated:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-IN">TestPMD<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-IN">L3FWD<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-IN">Crypto<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-IN">Compression<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-IN">LPM Perf<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-IN">MemCpy<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-IN"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-IN">* Performance Test:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span lang="EN-IN">TestPMD: PASS<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span lang="EN-IN">L3FWD: PASS<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span lang="EN-IN">Crypto: PASS<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span lang="EN-IN">Compression: PASS<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span lang="EN-IN">LPM Perf: PASS<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span lang="EN-IN">MemCpy: PASS<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN">The deviations highlighted during the DPDK v26.11-rc1 validation were rechecked. The previously observed deviation patterns in Compression on Genoa/Siena, Crypto on Turin Dense/Classic, and L3FWD on Siena/Sorano were
not observed in the rc2 results.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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