[dpdk-dev] 18.11.10 (LTS) patches review and test

Ali Alnubani alialnu at nvidia.com
Sun Sep 20 17:10:55 CEST 2020


Hi,

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> Subject: 18.11.10 (LTS) patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 18.11.10.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is 21 September.
> 
> 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 tests.
- testpmd timestamp tests.
- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
- RTE flow and flow_director tests:
  Items: eth / vlan / ipv4 / ipv6 / tcp / udp / gre
  Actions: drop / queue / rss / mark / flag
- Some RSS tests.
- VLAN stripping and insertion tests.
- Checksum and TSO tests.
- ptype tests.
- l3fwd-power example application tests.
- Multi-process example applications tests.

Testing matrix:
- NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.1-0.6.6.0 / Firmware: 14.28.1002
- NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.1-2.3.7.1 / Firmware: 14.28.2006
- NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.1-0.6.6.0 / Firmware: 16.28.1002
- NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.1-2.3.7.1 / Firmware: 16.28.2006

We don't see any critical issues blocking the release.

Regards,
Ali


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