21.11.1 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor]

On 11/04/2022 12:00, Ali Alnubani wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Friday, April 1, 2022 1:22 PM
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>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.com>;
>> Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>; benjamin.walker at intel.com; David
>> Christensen <drc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>;
>> hariprasad.govindharajan at intel.com; Hemant Agrawal
>> <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>; Ian Stokes <ian.stokes at intel.com>; Jerin
>> Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>; John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>;
>> Ju-Hyoung Lee <juhlee at microsoft.com>; Kevin Traynor
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>> <pezhang at redhat.com>; qian.q.xu at intel.com; Raslan Darawsheh
>> <rasland at nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL)
>> <thomas at monjalon.net>; yuan.peng at intel.com; zhaoyan.chen at intel.com
>> Subject: 21.11.1 patches review and test
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.1.
>>
>> Please try and complete validation by April 13th.
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on 21.11.1-rc1:
> - Basic functionality:
>    Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
> - testpmd xstats counter test.
> - testpmd timestamp test.
> - Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
> - RTE flow tests:
>    Items:
>    - conntrack
>    - ecpri
>    - eth
>    - flex
>    - geneve
>    - geneve_opt
>    - gre
>    - gre_key
>    - gre_option
>    - gtp
>    - gtp_psc
>    - icmp
>    - icmp6
>    - integrity
>    - ipv4
>    - ipv6
>    - ipv6_frag_ext
>    - mark
>    - meta
>    - mpls
>    - nvgre
>    - phy_port
>    - port_id
>    - tag
>    - tcp
>    - udp
>    - vlan
>    - vxlan
>    - vxlan_gpe
> 
>    Actions:
>    - age
>    - conntrack
>    - count
>    - dec_tcp_ack
>    - dec_tcp_seq
>    - dec_ttl
>    - drop
>    - flag
>    - inc_tcp_ack
>    - inc_tcp_seq
>    - jump
>    - mark
>    - meter
>    - modify_field
>    - nvgre_decap
>    - nvgre_encap
>    - of_pop_vlan
>    - of_push_vlan
>    - of_set_vlan_pcp
>    - of_set_vlan_vid
>    - port_id
>    - queue
>    - raw_decap
>    - raw_encap
>    - represented_port
>    - rss
>    - sample
>    - set_ipv4_dscp
>    - set_ipv4_dst
>    - set_ipv4_src
>    - set_ipv6_dscp
>    - set_ipv6_dst
>    - set_ipv6_src
>    - set_mac_dst
>    - set_mac_src
>    - set_meta
>    - set_tag
>    - set_tp_dst
>    - set_tp_src
>    - set_ttl
>    - vxlan_decap
>    - vxlan_encap
> - Some RSS tests.
> - VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion tests.
> - Checksum and TSO tests.
> - ptype tests.
> - link_status_interrupt example application tests.
> - l3fwd-power example application tests.
> - Multi-process example applications tests.
> - Hardware LRO tests.
> - Regex application tests.
> - Buffer Split tests.
> - Tx scheduling tests.
> 
> Functional tests ran on:
> - NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2 / Firmware: 14.32.1010
> - NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2 / Firmware: 16.32.2004
> - NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2 / Firmware: 22.32.2004
> - DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 1.2.1
> 
> Additionally, we ran compilation tests with multiple configurations in the following OS/driver combinations:
> - Ubuntu 20.04.4 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2.
> - Ubuntu 20.04.4 with rdma-core v39.0.
> - Ubuntu 20.04.4 with rdma-core v28.0.
> - Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core v17.1.
> - Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core master (5daf6a7) (i386).
> - Ubuntu 16.04.7 with rdma-core v22.7.
> - Fedora 35 with rdma-core v39.0.
> - CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (5daf6a7).
> - CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2.
> - CentOS 8 8.4.2105 with rdma-core master (5daf6a7).
> - OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 with rdma-core v31.0.
> - Windows Server 2019 with Clang 11.0.0.
> 
> We don't see any new critical issues blocking this release.
> 

Thanks for the report Ali.
Kevin.

> Thanks,
> Ali
>