[dpdk-stable] Mellanox's testing matrix for 18.11 LTS

[Ali Alnubani]

Hi,

The following covers the tests that we ran on top of the 18.11 LTS branch:


  *   Basic functionality:
- Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
- testpmd xstats counter test.
- testpmd timestamp test.

- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.

  *   RTE flow and flow_director tests.
  *   Some RSS tests.
  *   VLAN stripping and insertion tests.
  *   Checksum and TSO tests.
  *   ptype tests.
  *   Port interrupt testing.
  *   Multi-process testing.

Drivers tested:
- MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.5-1.0.1.0
- MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.4-2.0.1.0
- rdma-core upstream commit 0ea43f6

Tested NICs:
ConnectX-4 Lx (fw 14.24.1000).
ConnectX-5 (fw 16.24.1000).

OSes tested:
- RHEL7.4 (kernel 5.0.0).
- RHEL7.4 (kernel 3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64).

Latest tested version:
3acb4b5 version: 18.11.1-rc2

Regards,
Ali