20.11.8 patches review and test

[Xu, HailinX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2023 6:07 PM
> To: Xu, HailinX <hailinx.xu at intel.com>
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org; dev at dpdk.org; Walker, Benjamin
> <benjamin.walker at intel.com>; Stokes, Ian <ian.stokes at intel.com>;
> Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; Xu, Qian Q
> <qian.q.xu at intel.com>; Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>; Peng,
> Yuan <yuan.peng at intel.com>; Chen, Zhaoyan <zhaoyan.chen at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: 20.11.8 patches review and test
> 
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 06:17, Xu, HailinX <hailinx.xu at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Xu, HailinX
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2023 3:19 PM
> > > To: luca.boccassi at gmail.com; 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: RE: 20.11.8 patches review and test
> > >
> > > Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk20.11.8-rc1
> > > validation test rate is 80%. No critical issue is found.
> > > 2 new bugs are found, These 2 issues are being confirmed by Intel Dev.
> > > New bugs:
> > >   bug1. softnic and metering_and_policing: create rule failed  --
> > > Intel dev is under investigating.
> > >   bug2. some of the unit tests are failing:  -- Intel dev is 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. No new dpdk issue is found.
> > > * PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including
> > > RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
> > > - Execution rate is 80%. 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.
> > > - Execution rate is 70%. No new dpdk issue is found.
> > > * Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including
> > > PF/VF single core performance test, etc.
> > > - Execution rate is 80%. No new dpdk issue is found.
> > > * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic
> > > test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
> > > - on going.
> > >
> > > # 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.
> > > - Execution rate is 95%. No new dpdk issue is found.
> > > * Cryptodev:
> > >   *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API
> > > testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
> > >     - Execution rate is 95%. bug2 was found.
> > >   *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput
> > > Performance/Cryptodev Latency, etc.
> > >     - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Xu, Hailin
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: luca.boccassi at gmail.com <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
> > > > Sent: Saturday, April 1, 2023 2:20 AM
> > > > 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: 20.11.8 patches review and test
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.8.
> > > >
> > > > The planned date for the final release is April 17th.
> > > >
> > > > 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=v20.11.8-rc1
> > > >
> > > > These patches are located at branch 20.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> > > >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Luca Boccassi
> > Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk20.11.8-rc1 validation test
> rate is 98%. No critical issue is found.
> > 4 new bugs are found, These 3 issues are being confirmed by Intel Dev.
> > New bugs:
> >   1. softnic and metering_and_policing: create rule failed -- Intel dev is
> under investigating.
> >   2. some of the unit tests are failing: -- Intel dev is under investigating
> >   3. pvp_qemu_multi_paths_port_restart:perf_pvp_qemu_vector_rx_mac:
> performance drop about 23.5% when send small packets
> >         https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212
> >   4. large_vf/3_vfs_256_queues："OP_DEL_RSS_INPUT_CFG" error appears
> > when exiting testpmd  -- Intel dev is 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. No new dpdk issue is found.
> > * 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. found bug4.
> > * Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single
> core performance test, etc.
> > - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> > * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test -
> QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
> > - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> >
> > # 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 8.0, etc.
> > - All test done. found bug3.
> > * Cryptodev:
> >   *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API
> testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
> >     - Execution rate is 95%. found bug2.
> >   *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput
> Performance/Cryptodev Latency, etc.
> >     - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Xu, Hailin
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Any news about the other 3 issues that were pending investigation?

One issue fix patch verify failed, preparing a new patch, Other issues are under investigation.

Regards,
Xu, Hailin