20.11.7 patches review and test

[Luca Boccassi]

Thank you!

On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 at 09:25, YangHang Liu <yanghliu at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi  Luca,
>
> RedHat QE does not find new issues about the 20.11.7 dpdk during the tests.
>
> We tested below 17 scenarios and all got PASS on RHEL8:
>
> Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size): PASS
> Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size) : PASS
> Guest with device assignment(VF) throughput testing: PASS
> PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing: PASS
> PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing: PASS
> PVP vhost-user 1Q - cross numa node throughput testing: PASS
> Guest with vhost-user 2 queues throughput testing: PASS
> vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: qemu reconnect: PASS
> vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: ovs reconnect: PASS
> PVP 1Q live migration testing: PASS
> PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing: PASS
> Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing: PASS
> Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M): PASS
> Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing: PASS
> Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing: PASS
> Host PF + DPDK testing: PASS
> Host VF + DPDK testing: PASS
>
> Versions:
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> kernel 4.18
> qemu-kvm-6.2
> DPDK
>
> commit 849770ce78a1b1a4871871feafbfcd9c204ea625 (tag: v20.11.7-rc1)
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> Author: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
>
> Date:   Mon Nov 28 10:21:36 2022 +0000
> version: 20.11.7-rc1
> Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
>
>
> NICs: X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)
>
>
> Best Regards,
> YangHang Liu
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 6:23 PM Jiang, YuX <yux.jiang at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>> Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk20.11.7-rc1 validation test rate is 95%. No critical issue is found.
>> 2 new bugs are found, 1 new issue is under confirming by Intel Dev.
>> New bugs:
>>   1, Compilation error compiling dpdk with vm_power_manager sample app  -- Intel dev is under investigating.
>>   2, vf_interrupt_pmd/nic_interrupt_VF_vfio_pci: l3fwd-power Wake up failed on X722 37d0
>>         - Find on DPDK22.11, it has fix patch: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20221117065726.277672-1-kaisenx.you@intel.com/
>>         - Patch is not merged into main, its fix can be applied on LTS20.11.7-rc1 and tested passed.
>>   3, inline ipsec: test failed on LTS20.11.7  -- Intel validation owner and dev are under investigating.
>>
>> # Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
>> * Build & CFLAG compile: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Fedora36, RHEL8.4, etc.
>> - All test done. One known bug: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991 net/ena build failure with gcc 12, still no 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.
>> - One issue is under confirming.
>>
>> # 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.
>>     - All test passed.
>>   *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
>>     - All test done.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Yu Jiang
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: luca.boccassi at gmail.com <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
>> > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2022 6:53 PM
>> > To: stable at dpdk.org
>> > Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.com>; Ali
>> > Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>; Walker, Benjamin
>> > <benjamin.walker at intel.com>; David Christensen <drc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>;
>> > Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>; Stokes, Ian
>> > <ian.stokes at intel.com>; Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>; Mcnamara, John
>> > <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; Ju-Hyoung Lee <juhlee at microsoft.com>; Kevin
>> > Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>; Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>; Pei
>> > Zhang <pezhang at redhat.com>; Xu, Qian Q <qian.q.xu at intel.com>; Raslan
>> > Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>; Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>;
>> > Yanghang Liu <yanghliu at redhat.com>; Peng, Yuan <yuan.peng at intel.com>;
>> > Chen, Zhaoyan <zhaoyan.chen at intel.com>
>> > Subject: 20.11.7 patches review and test
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.7.
>> >
>> > The planned date for the final release is the 12th of December.
>> >
>> > 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=v20.11.7-rc1
>> >
>> > These patches are located at branch 20.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Luca Boccassi
>> >
>> > ---