21.11.1 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor]

On 12/04/2022 09:58, Jiang, YuX wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Friday, April 1, 2022 6:22 PM
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>> Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>; Walker, Benjamin
>> <benjamin.walker at intel.com>; David Christensen
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>> Zhaoyan <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.
>>
>> A release candidate tarball can be found at:
>>
>>      https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v21.11.1-rc1
>>
>> These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>>      https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> ---
> 
> Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk21.11.1-rc1 test rate is 90%. Till now, no critical issue is found.
> Failure defect:
> Bug1: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992 [dpdk 21.11.1-rc1] drivers/net/cnxk/cnxk_ethdev_mtr meson build failed with cflag param optimization=1 on Ubuntu20.04 with GCC10.3
>   > It was found in 22.03-rc2(https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939), validation team apply 939's patch failed. Need new patch for LTS21.11.1-rc1.
> 

Thanks for reporting this. I couldn't reproduce but sent a patch and 
updated the Bz. Please try it out if you can.

Kevin.

> # Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
> * Build&CFLAG compile: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang/ICC version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Fedora35, RHEL8.4, etc.
> - All test done. Find new bug: Bug1, not fix.
> * PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
> - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> * VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.		
> - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found. 	
> * PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
> - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> * Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, etc.
> - All test done. No big performance drop.
> * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
> - All test passed.
> * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
> - All test passed.
> 		
> # Basic cryptodev and virtio testing
> * Virtio: both function and performance test are covered. Such as PVP/Virtio_loopback/virtio-user loopback/virtio-net VM2VM perf testing/VMAWARE ESXI 7.0u3, etc.
> - All test done. No new issue is found.
> * Cryptodev:
> *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
> - Test rate: 80%, no new issue is found currently.
> *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
> - Test rate: 80%, no new issue is found currently.
> 
> BRs
> Yu Jiang