21.11.3 patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 1:30 PM
> To: stable at dpdk.org
> 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>; Hemant Agrawal
> <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>; Ian Stokes <ian.stokes at intel.com>; Jerin
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> 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>; yanghliu at redhat.com; yuan.peng at intel.com;
> zhaoyan.chen at intel.com
> Subject: 21.11.3 patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.3.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is 19th 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=v21.11.3-rc1
> 
> These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> ---

Hello,

We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on 21.11.3-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:
  - 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
  - tag
  - tcp
  - udp
  - vlan
  - vxlan
  - vxlan_gpe

  Actions:
  - age
  - 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
  - queue
  - raw_decap
  - raw_encap
  - 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-5.8-1.0.1.1 / Firmware: 14.32.1010
- NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-1.0.1.1 / Firmware: 16.35.1012
- NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.7-1.0.2.0 / Firmware: 22.35.1012
- DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 1.5.0 / Firmware: 24.35.1012

We don't see any new issues in functional testing caused by changes in this release.

Additionally, we ran compilation tests with multiple configurations on the following OS/driver combinations:
- Ubuntu 22.04.1 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-1.1.2.1.
- Ubuntu 20.04.5 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-1.1.2.1.
- Ubuntu 20.04.5 with rdma-core master (76cfaa1).
- Ubuntu 20.04.5 with rdma-core v28.0.
- Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core v17.1.
- Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core master (76cfaa1) (i386).
- Ubuntu 16.04.7 with rdma-core v22.7.
- Fedora 37 with rdma-core v41.0.
- Fedora 38 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v41.0.
- CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (76cfaa1).
- CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-1.0.1.1.
- CentOS 8 8.4.2105 with rdma-core master (76cfaa1).
- OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 with rdma-core v38.1.
- Windows Server 2019 with Clang 11.0.0.

The builds are passing on most OS except for Fedora 37 and 38, where I have the following issues:
- Bug 1149 - [21.11] lib/ring build failure with gcc 12 and debug enabled (https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1149)
- Bug 1150 - [21.11] failure to build API's html docs on Fedora 37 (https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1150)

Thanks,
Ali