21.11.9 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor]

On 16/12/2024 18:14, Ali Alnubani wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2024 5:59 PM
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>> 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>;
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>> Subject: 21.11.9 patches review and test
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.9.
>>
>> The planned date for the final release is 17th December 2024.
>>
>> 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=v21.11.9-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 21.11.9-rc1, and we don't see new issues caused by the changes in this release.:
> 

Thank you Ali!

> - 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 (https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#supported-hardware-offloads)
> - 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.
> - Buffer Split tests.
> - Tx scheduling tests.
> 
> Functional tests ran on:
> - NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 22.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.10-1.1.4.0 / Firmware: 22.43.2026
> - NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 22.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.10-1.1.4.0 / Firmware: 28.43.2026
> - DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 2.9.1 / Firmware: 24.43.2026
> 
> Additionally, we ran build tests with multiple configurations on the following OS/driver combinations (all passed):
> - Debian 12 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.10-1.1.4.0.
> - Ubuntu 22.04 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.10-1.1.4.0.
> - Ubuntu 24.04 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.10-1.1.4.0.
> - Ubuntu 24.04 with rdma-core v50.0.
> - Fedora 40 with rdma-core v48.0.
> - Fedora 42 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v51.0.
> - OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 with rdma-core v49.1.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ali