21.11.4 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor]

On 20/04/2023 03:40, Xu, HailinX wrote:
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>> Subject: RE: 21.11.4 patches review and test
>>
>>> -----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
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>> Thomas
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>>> <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
> Update the test status for Intel part. completed dpdk21.11.4-rc1 all validation. No critical issue is found.

Hi. Thanks for testing.

> 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  --not fix yet, Only the specified platform exists

Do you know which patch caaused the regression? I'm not fully clear from 
the Bz for 20.11. The backported patch ID'd as root cause [0] in 20.11 
is in the previous releases of 20.11 (and 21.11).

Trying to understand because then it would have shown in testing for 
previous releases. Or is this a new test introduced for latest LTS 
releases? and if so, what is the baseline performance based on?

[0]
commit 1c9a7fba5c90e0422b517404499ed106f647bcff
Author: Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com>
Date:   Mon Jul 11 14:11:32 2022 +0200

     net: accept unaligned data in checksum routines

>    2. some of the virtio tests are failing: -- Intel dev is under investigating

ok, thank you.

Kevin.

> # 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.
> - 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 bug1.
> * Cryptodev:
>    *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
>      - All test done. found bug2.
>    *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance/Cryptodev Latency, etc.
>      - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> 
> Regards,
> Xu, Hailin
>