On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 12:44 PM Ali Alnubani <alia...@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ali Alnubani
> > Sent: Monday, July 5, 2021 9:35 AM
> > To: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrha...@canonical.com>
> > Cc: sta...@dpdk.org; dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe
> > <abhishek.mara...@microsoft.com>; Akhil Goyal <akhil.go...@nxp.com>;
> > benjamin.wal...@intel.com; David Christensen <d...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>;
> > hariprasad.govindhara...@intel.com; Hemant Agrawal
> > <hemant.agra...@nxp.com>; Ian Stokes <ian.sto...@intel.com>; Jerin
> > Jacob <jer...@marvell.com>; John McNamara <john.mcnam...@intel.com>;
> > Ju-Hyoung Lee <juh...@microsoft.com>; Kevin Traynor
> > <ktray...@redhat.com>; Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>; Pei Zhang
> > <pezh...@redhat.com>; pingx...@intel.com; qian.q...@intel.com; Raslan
> > Darawsheh <rasl...@nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon
> > <tho...@monjalon.net>; yuan.p...@intel.com; zhaoyan.c...@intel.com;
> > Asaf Penso <as...@nvidia.com>
> > Subject: RE: 19.11.9 patches review and test
> >
> > Hi Christian,
> > Sorry for the delay.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrha...@canonical.com>
> > > Sent: Friday, July 2, 2021 10:42 AM
> > > To: Ali Alnubani <alia...@nvidia.com>
> > > Cc: sta...@dpdk.org; dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe
> > > <abhishek.mara...@microsoft.com>; Akhil Goyal <akhil.go...@nxp.com>;
> > > benjamin.wal...@intel.com; David Christensen
> > <d...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>;
> > > hariprasad.govindhara...@intel.com; Hemant Agrawal
> > > <hemant.agra...@nxp.com>; Ian Stokes <ian.sto...@intel.com>; Jerin
> > > Jacob <jer...@marvell.com>; John McNamara
> > <john.mcnam...@intel.com>;
> > > Ju-Hyoung Lee <juh...@microsoft.com>; Kevin Traynor
> > > <ktray...@redhat.com>; Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>; Pei Zhang
> > > <pezh...@redhat.com>; pingx...@intel.com; qian.q...@intel.com;
> > Raslan
> > > Darawsheh <rasl...@nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon
> > > <tho...@monjalon.net>; yuan.p...@intel.com;
> > zhaoyan.c...@intel.com
> > > Subject: Re: 19.11.9 patches review and test
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 5:50 PM Ali Alnubani <alia...@nvidia.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrha...@canonical.com>
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2021 9:38 AM
> > > > > To: sta...@dpdk.org
> > > > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe
> > > <abhishek.mara...@microsoft.com>;
> > > > > Akhil Goyal <akhil.go...@nxp.com>; Ali Alnubani
> > > > > <alia...@nvidia.com>; benjamin.wal...@intel.com; David Christensen
> > > > > <d...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; hariprasad.govindhara...@intel.com;
> > > Hemant
> > > > > Agrawal <hemant.agra...@nxp.com>; Ian Stokes
> > > <ian.sto...@intel.com>;
> > > > > Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.com>; John McNamara
> > > > > <john.mcnam...@intel.com>; Ju-Hyoung Lee
> > <juh...@microsoft.com>;
> > > > > Kevin Traynor <ktray...@redhat.com>; Luca Boccassi
> > > > > <bl...@debian.org>; Pei Zhang <pezh...@redhat.com>;
> > > > > pingx...@intel.com; qian.q...@intel.com; Raslan Darawsheh
> > > > > <rasl...@nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon
> > > > > <tho...@monjalon.net>; yuan.p...@intel.com;
> > > zhaoyan.c...@intel.com
> > > > > Subject: 19.11.9 patches review and test
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.9.
> > > > >
> > > > > The planned date for the final release is 2nd July.
> > > > >
> > > > > 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 renewed release candidate tarball can be found at:
> > > > >
> > > > >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v19.11.9-rc3
> > > > >
> > > > > These patches are located at branch 19.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> > > > >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks.
> > > > >
> > > > > Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrha...@canonical.com>
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > The following covers the functional tests that we ran on Mellanox
> > > hardware for this release:
> > > > - 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:
> > > >   Items: eth / vlan / ipv4 / ipv6 / tcp / udp / icmp / gre / nvgre /
> > > > vxlan / ip in
> > > ip / mplsoudp / mplsogre
> > > >   Actions: drop / queue / rss / mark / flag / jump / count /
> > > > raw_encap / raw_decap / vxlan_encap / vxlan_decap / NAT / dec_ttl
> > > > - Some 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.
> > > >
> > > > Functional tests ran on:
> > > > - NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver:
> > > > MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1 / Firmware: 14.30.1004
> > > > - NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver:
> > > > MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1 / Firmware: 16.30.1004
> > > >
> > > > We discovered 2 new issues due to environment changes:
> > > > - can't create some rules with count action, fixed by
> > > https://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/20210621145105.963179-1-
> > > lmarga...@nvidia.com/T/#u.
> > >
> > > As discussed in the release meeting yesterday, that is a regression
> > > and needs to be added.
> > > While I feel slightly tired of new respins this is what we do the 
> > > validation
> > for.
> > > So thanks you (all!) for the testing!
> > >
> > > I have now applied the referred fix to 19.11.9
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > >
> > > FYI: I see this came up ~5 days into the -rc3 testing, but I missed it
> > > so I checked why.
> > > It was breaking the usual subject syntax (double colon) and not
> > > flagged for
> > > 19.11.9 (as requested in backport mails and the common
> > > style) in subject or body.
> > >
> > > > - rte_flow hit counter doesn't increment, still discussing this 
> > > > internally.
> > >
> > > For this issue please tell me until Monday what you expect.
> > > Does it look close to being resolved (then I'll hold -rc4 back a bit
> > > longer) or should I go on planning to release 19.11.9 without it (then
> > > I'd tag -
> > > rc4 on Monday).
> >
> > We are checking if we can resolve this in the next few hours. Hope that's ok
> > with you.
>
> Should be resolved by 
> https://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/20210705085856.13971-1-viachesl...@nvidia.com/T/#u.

Thanks - got it, applies and is mlx-only.
That should be fine.

I'm doing cross-arch/cross-distro build tests before tagging -rc4 based on this.

> >
> > >
> > > Generally on -rc4 I think it would be sufficient if you would re-run
> > > your testing as your tests cover the only two things we have touched
> > > in -rc4 (clang
> > > 12 and the flow issue).
> > > I'm not "against" more tests, just saying that those should be
> > > sufficient in case no others come back then.
> > > Because other than the issues reported in here all other tests already
> > > came back fully green for -rc3.
> > >
> > > FYI the usual non-official WIP repo on
> > > https://github.com/cpaelzer/dpdk-stable-queue/commits/19.11 holds
> > what
> > > 19.11.9-rc4 would become if you want to pre-test anything.
> > >
> > > > Compilation tests with multiple configurations in the following
> > > > OS/driver
> > > combinations are also passing:
> > > > - Ubuntu 20.04.2 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1.
> > > > - Ubuntu 20.04.2 with rdma-core master (a66e2a5).
> > > > - Ubuntu 20.04.2 with rdma-core v28.0.
> > > > - Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core v17.1.
> > > > - Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core master (a66e2a5) (i386).
> > > > - Ubuntu 16.04.7 with rdma-core v22.7.
> > > > - Fedora 34 with rdma-core v35.0 (only with gcc).
> > > > - Fedora 35 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v35.0 (only with gcc).
> > > > - CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (a66e2a5).
> > > > - CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1.
> > > > - CentOS 8 8.3.2011 with rdma-core master (7f2d460).
> > > > - OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 with rdma-core v31.0.
> > > >
> > > > Note that clang builds are failing in Fedora 34 and 35 due to the
> > > > following
> > > issues:
> > > > - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745
> > >
> > > This is still totally unknown and not specific to 19.11 series.
> > > I guess this clang issue has to wait for the next stable release then.
> > >
> > > > - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733
> > >
> > > We've identified the patch that needs to be backported for this one.
> > > I have done so and built across all platforms - LGTM.
> > > If your tests could also confirm this once we have -rc4 tagged that
> > > would be great.
> >
> > Sure, I'll retest once rc4 is out.
> >
> > >
> > > > We don't see any other critical issues blocking this release.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Ali
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Christian Ehrhardt
> > > Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
> > > Canonical Ltd
> >
> > Thanks again Christian,
> >
> > Ali
>
> Thanks,
> Ali



-- 
Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd

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