21.11.6 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor]

On 28/12/2023 03:06, YangHang Liu wrote:
> I tested below 18 scenarios on RHEL9 and didn't find any new dpdk issues.
> 
> 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 4Q 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 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-7.2.0
> kernel 5.14
> # git describe
> v21.11.6-rc1
> 
> Test device : X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)
> 
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 9:22 PM Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com
> <mailto:ktraynor at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.6.
> 
>     The planned date for the final release is 12 January.
> 
>     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=v21.11.6-rc1
>     <https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v21.11.6-rc1>
> 
>     These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>         https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>     <https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/>
> 
>     Thanks.
> 
>     Kevin

Thanks YangHang. I will add to the validation notes,
Kevin.