[dpdk-dev] [EXTERNAL] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.02-rc4

[Abhishek Marathe]

Hi,

Replying to this email thread as I'm not able to find original thread for 20.02 review and test.

Our findings while testing v20.02:
1. We did see issues against SLES15 SP1 and RHEL 7 RAW with CX4, after investigation, issues are fixed by installing Mellanox driver.

DPDK_SOURCE_URL=https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/snapshot/dpdk-v20.02.tar.gz

Test case description:
* VERIFY-DPDK-COMPLIANCE - verifies kernel is supported and that the build is successful
* VERIFY-DPDK-BUILD-AND-TESTPMD-TEST - verifies using testpmd that packets can be sent from a VM to another VM
* VERIFY-SRIOV-FAILSAFE-FOR-DPDK - disables/enables Accelerated Networking for the NICs under test and makes sure DPDK works in both scenarios
* VERIFY-DPDK-FAILSAFE-DURING-TRAFFIC - disables/enables Accelerated Networking for the NICs while generating traffic using testpmd

* PERF-DPDK-FWD-PPS-DS15 - verifies DPDK forwarding performance using testpmd on 2, 4, 8 cores, rx and io mode on size Standard_DS15_v2
* PERF-DPDK-SINGLE-CORE-PPS-DS4 - verifies DPDK performance using testpmd on 1 core, rx and io mode on size Standard_DS4_v2
* PERF-DPDK-SINGLE-CORE-PPS-DS15 - verifies DPDK performance using testpmd on 1 core, rx and io mode on size Standard_DS15_v2
* PERF-DPDK-MULTICORE-PPS-DS15 - verifies DPDK performance using testpmd on 2, 4, 8 cores, rx and io mode on size Standard_DS15_v2
* PERF-DPDK-MULTICORE-PPS-F32 - verifies DPDK performance using testpmd on 2, 4, 8, 16 cores, rx and io mode on size Standard_F32s_v2

* DPDK-RING-LATENCY - verifies DPDK CPU latency using https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fshemminger%2Fdpdk-ring-ping.git&data=02%7C01%7CAbhishek.Marathe%40microsoft.com%7Caa457975b80d4b905a4708d748949f33%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637057675470614018&sdata=grffUwKPmgVqikIpQzx6%2Bd9D2rpuCDnqvH%2FVIe5iUa4%3D&reserved=0
* VERIFY-DPDK-PRIMARY-SECONDARY-PROCESSES - verifies primary / secondary processes support for DPDK. Runs only on RHEL and Ubuntu distros with Linux kernel >= 4.20

* VERIFY-DPDK-OVS - builds OVS with DPDK support and tests if the OVS DPDK ports can be created. Runs only on Ubuntu distro.
* VERIFY-DPDK-VPP - builds VPP with DPDK support and tests if the VPP ports are present. Runs only on RHEL and Ubuntu distros.
* VERIFY-DPDK-NFF-GO - builds NFF-GO with DPDK support and runs the functional tests from the NFF-GO repository. Runs only on Ubuntu distro. 

Azure images:
Canonical UbuntuServer 16.04-LTS latest
Canonical UbuntuServer 18.04-DAILY-LTS latest
RedHat RHEL 7-RAW latest 
RedHat RHEL 7.5 latest 
Openlogic CentOS 7.5 latest
SUSE SLES-15-sp1 gen1 latest
 
Test case status:
VERIFY-DPDK-FAILSAFE-DURING-TRAFFIC PASS
VERIFY-DPDK-BUILD-AND-TESTPMD-TEST PASS
VERIFY-SRIOV-FAILSAFE-FOR-DPDK PASS
VERIFY-DPDK-COMPLIANCE PASS
VERIFY-DPDK-OVS PASS
VERIFY-DPDK-RING-LATENCY PASS
PERF-DPDK-FWD-PPS-DS15 PASS
PERF-DPDK-SINGLE-CORE-PPS-DS4 PASS
PERF-DPDK-SINGLE-CORE-PPS-DS15 PASS
PERF-DPDK-MULTICORE-PPS-DS15 PASS
PERF-DPDK-MULTICORE-PPS-F32 PASS

Regards,
Abhishek

-----Original Message-----
From: announce <announce-bounces at dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2020 1:08 PM
To: announce at dpdk.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.02-rc4

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
	https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgit.dpdk.org%2Fdpdk%2Ftag%2F%3Fid%3Dv20.02-rc4&data=02%7C01%7CAbhishek.Marathe%40microsoft.com%7C7386440a2e714d37831408d7b7db55ca%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637180024975203059&sdata=XF8S3GF8oUsBXh7O2NIgz002HM611Ob6bBHfPbThZZ0%3D&reserved=0
76 patches were integrated.
This is small enough to be confident about closing 20.02 soon.

The release notes so far:
	https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdoc.dpdk.org%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_20_02.html&data=02%7C01%7CAbhishek.Marathe%40microsoft.com%7C7386440a2e714d37831408d7b7db55ca%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637180024975203059&sdata=LMP4KBmgrDdPCeE%2B6IW8ZJDHOJYCJl%2Fr6WnA647xVnY%3D&reserved=0
Please add your tested platforms to the list:
	https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdoc.dpdk.org%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_20_02.html%23tested-platforms&data=02%7C01%7CAbhishek.Marathe%40microsoft.com%7C7386440a2e714d37831408d7b7db55ca%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637180024975203059&sdata=Z9u9LjrUUe%2FqHk2o34eYz2erZuhmQCqr16YUIyXvXnk%3D&reserved=0
Some deprecation notices are pending for review.

This is the last release candidate for DPDK 20.02.
Please share some release validation results by replying to this message (at dev at dpdk.org).
If no critical issue is reported, 20.02 will be closed on Tuesday 25th.

If you are preparing the next release cycle, please send your v1 patches before the 20.05 proposal deadline, which will happen on March 18th.
It is also time to build an estimated roadmap for the next cycles.

Thank you everyone