21.11.8 patches review and test
Kevin Traynor
ktraynor at redhat.com
Tue Sep 17 18:43:16 CEST 2024
On 17/09/2024 17:21, Ali Alnubani wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2024 7:14 PM
>> To: Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>; stable at dpdk.org
>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.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>; Luca
>> Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>; Pei Zhang <pezhang at redhat.com>; Raslan
>> Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL)
>> <thomas at monjalon.net>; yanghliu at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: 21.11.8 patches review and test
>>
>> On 11/09/2024 14:10, Ali Alnubani wrote:
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2024 3:20 PM
>>>> To: Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>; stable at dpdk.org
>>>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.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>; Luca
>>>> Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>; Pei Zhang <pezhang at redhat.com>; Raslan
>>>> Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon
>>>> (EXTERNAL) <thomas at monjalon.net>; yanghliu at redhat.com
>>>> Subject: Re: 21.11.8 patches review and test
>>>>
>>>> On 10/09/2024 20:12, Ali Alnubani wrote:
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
>>>>>> Sent: Friday, September 6, 2024 12:53 PM
>>>>>> To: Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>; stable at dpdk.org
>>>>>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe
>>>> <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.com>;
>>>>>> David Christensen <drc at linux.vnet.ibm.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>; Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>;
>>>> Pei
>>>>>> Zhang <pezhang at redhat.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>;
>>>> NBU-
>>>>>> Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas at monjalon.net>;
>>>>>> yanghliu at redhat.com
>>>>>> Subject: Re: 21.11.8 patches review and test
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 05/09/2024 15:02, Kevin Traynor wrote:
>>>>>>> On 05/09/2024 14:29, Ali Alnubani wrote:
>>>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
>>>>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2024 3:38 PM
>>>>>>>>> To: stable at dpdk.org
>>>>>>>>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe
>>>> <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.com>;
>>>>>> Ali
>>>>>>>>> Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>; David Christensen
>>>>>> <drc at linux.vnet.ibm.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 <ktraynor at redhat.com>; Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>;
>>>> Pei
>>>>>> Zhang
>>>>>>>>> <pezhang at redhat.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>;
>>>> NBU-
>>>>>>>>> Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas at monjalon.net>;
>>>>>>>>> yanghliu at redhat.com
>>>>>>>>> Subject: 21.11.8 patches review and test
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.8.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The planned date for the final release is 18th 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.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> A release candidate tarball can be found at:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v21.11.8-rc1
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>>>>>>>>> https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Kevin
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Kevin,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I see this build failure in Debian 12 and Fedora 40:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> $ meson --werror --buildtype=debugoptimized build && ninja -C build
>>>>>>>> [..]
>>>>>>>> drivers/net/softnic/rte_eth_softnic_meter.c:916:25: error: 's' may be
>>>> used
>>>>>> uninitialized [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Will update with the rest of our functional testing later during the next
>>>> couple
>>>>>> of weeks.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>> Ali
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ok, thanks. I will check it out.
>>>>>> Hi Ali,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It looks like a false positive, as the stats [0] are initialised in
>>>>>> mtr_stats_convert() before they are used. The code is unchanged since
>>>>>> the last release so probably it's compiler/distro change for this release.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've built with this meson command using latest gcc and clang on a F40
>>>>>> and not seeing this issue [1].
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you using same compiler versions ? Any other details needed to
>>>>>> reproduce ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>> Kevin.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [0]
>>>>>> https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-
>>>>>> stable/tree/drivers/net/softnic/rte_eth_softnic_meter.c?h=21.11#n906
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>> $ clang --version
>>>>>> clang version 18.1.6 (Fedora 18.1.6-3.fc40)
>>>>>> $ gcc --version
>>>>>> gcc (GCC) 14.2.1 20240801 (Red Hat 14.2.1-1)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> commit 680818068d31764357075cde440232ce5ab8b786 (HEAD ->
>>>> 21.11, tag:
>>>>>> v21.11.8-rc1, origin/21.11)
>>>>>> Author: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
>>>>>> Date: Thu Sep 5 10:34:16 2024 +0100
>>>>>>
>>>>>> version: 21.11.8-rc1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> e.g.
>>>>>> $ meson --werror --buildtype=debugoptimized build-gcc
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> $ ninja -C build-gcc
>>>>>> ninja: Entering directory `build-gcc'
>>>>>> [3071/3071] Linking target app/test/dpdk-test
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kevin.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Kevin, apologies for the late response,
>>>>>
>>>>> The build failure doesn't reproduce for me on some environments either.
>>>>> I tried to compare the log of 2 builds (one that reproduced, and one that
>>>> didn't), and the only difference I saw was related to AVX512 support.
>>>>>
>>>>> Build passed on an AMD EPYC 7713 system (3rd Gen EPYC, no AVX512
>>>> support):
>>>>> [..]
>>>>> Fetching value of define "__AVX512BW__" : (undefined)
>>>>> Fetching value of define "__AVX512CD__" : (undefined)
>>>>> Fetching value of define "__AVX512DQ__" : (undefined)
>>>>> Fetching value of define "__AVX512F__" : (undefined)
>>>>> Fetching value of define "__AVX512VL__" : (undefined)
>>>>> [..]
>>>>>
>>>>> Build failed on an AMD EPYC 9654P system (4th Gen EPYC, has AVX512
>>>> support):
>>>>> [..]
>>>>> Fetching value of define "__AVX512BW__" : 1
>>>>> Fetching value of define "__AVX512CD__" : 1
>>>>> Fetching value of define "__AVX512DQ__" : 1
>>>>> Fetching value of define "__AVX512F__" : 1
>>>>> Fetching value of define "__AVX512VL__" : 1
>>>>> [..]
>>>>>
>>>>> The build failure doesn't reproduce for me on 22.11 and newer versions.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that function is not present in later versions. I don't have easy
>>>> access to an AVX512 enabled system but it should be a simple fix.
>>>>
>>>> Would you be able to try with the below ?
>>>>
>>>> --- a/drivers/net/softnic/rte_eth_softnic_meter.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/softnic/rte_eth_softnic_meter.c
>>>> @@ -904,5 +904,5 @@ pmd_mtr_stats_read(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
>>>> /* Stats format conversion. */
>>>> if (stats || stats_mask) {
>>>> - struct rte_mtr_stats s;
>>>> + struct rte_mtr_stats s = {0};
>>>> uint64_t s_mask = 0;
>>>>
>>>
>>> Build passes with this change, thanks!
>>>
>>
>> Hi Ali,
>>
>> Unfortunately gcc on RHEL/CentOS 7, doesn't like this with -Wextra,
>> according to godbolt. I'm just going to fix with an explicit memset [0],
>> so we don't go in circles with compiler versions/options.
>>
>> Regarding other validation, is there any update on status or ETA ?
>>
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> Apologies for the delay, it was due to PTO and recent holidays.
> No new issues so far. I was planning on sending my report early tomorrow.
>
Great, thanks for the update.
> Regards,
> Ali
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