21.11.4 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor]

On 19/04/2023 12:00, YangHang Liu wrote:
> Hi, Kevin
> 
> RedHat QE does not find new issues about the v21.11.4-rc1 dpdk during the
> tests.
> 

Hi YangHang, thanks for testing and the report.
Kevin.


> We tested below 18 scenarios and all got PASS on RHEL9:
> 
>     - 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  reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: 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
> 
> Test Versions:
> 
>     - qemu-kvm-6.2.0
>     - kernel 5.14
>     - dpdk 21.11.4-rc1
> 
> git log -1
> 
> commit f7dce59377b34750fdda7d1780d527233c84663f
> 
> Author: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
> 
> Date: Thu Apr 6 09:11:25 2023 +0100
> 
> version: 21.11.4-rc1
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
> 
> 
>     - Test device : X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)
> 
> Best Regards,
> YangHang Liu
> 
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 2:13 PM Xu, HailinX <hailinx.xu at intel.com> wrote:
> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2023 7:38 PM
>>> To: stable at dpdk.org
>>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.com>;
>>> Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>; 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>; yanghliu at redhat.com; Peng, Yuan
>>> <yuan.peng at intel.com>; Chen, Zhaoyan <zhaoyan.chen at intel.com>
>>> Subject: 21.11.4 patches review and test
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.4.
>>>
>>> The planned date for the final release is 25th April.
>>>
>>> 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=v21.11.4-rc1
>>>
>>> These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>>>      https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>
>> HI All,
>>
>> Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk21.11.4-rc1 validation
>> test rate is 85%. No critical issue is found.
>> 2 new bugs are found, 1 new issue is under confirming by Intel Dev.
>> New bugs:   --20.11.8-rc1 also has these two issues
>>    1. 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    -- no fix yet
>>    2. some of the virtio 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, Ubuntu22.04, Fedora35, Fedora37, RHEL8.6, RHEL8.4,
>> FreeBSD13.1, SUSE15, CentOS7.9, 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. 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 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 8.0, etc.
>> - All test done. found bug1.
>> * Cryptodev:
>>    *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API
>> testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
>>      - Execution rate is 90%. found bug2.
>>    *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput
>> Performance/Cryptodev Latency, etc.
>>      - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Xu, Hailin
>>
>>
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