Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemi...@nvidia.com> > Sent: Monday, December 6, 2021 6:15 PM > To: sta...@dpdk.org > Cc: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemi...@nvidia.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek > Marathe <abhishek.mara...@microsoft.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>; qian.q...@intel.com; Raslan Darawsheh > <rasl...@nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) > <tho...@monjalon.net>; yuan.p...@intel.com; zhaoyan.c...@intel.com > Subject: 20.11.4 patches review and test > > Hi all, > > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.4. > > The planned date for the final release is 31th December. > > 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=v20.11.4-rc1 > > These patches are located at branch 20.11 of dpdk-stable repo: > https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/ > > Thanks. > > Xueming Li <xuemi...@nvidia.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 - geneve - gre - gre_key - gtp - icmp - icmp6 - ipv4 - ipv6 - ipv6_frag_ext - mark - meta - mpls - nvgre - tag - tcp - udp - vlan - vxlan - vxlan_gpe Actions: - age (shared and non-shared) - count - dec_tcp_ack - dec_tcp_seq - dec_ttl - drop - flag - inc_tcp_ack - inc_tcp_seq - jump - mark - queue - raw_decap - raw_encap - rss (shared and non-shared) - set_ipv4_dscp - set_ipv4_dst - set_ipv4_src - set_ipv6_dscp - set_ipv6_dst - set_ipv6_src - set_mac_dst - set_mac_src - set_meta - set_tag - set_tp_dst - set_tp_src - set_ttl - vxlan_decap - vxlan_encap - 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. - Hardware LRO tests. Functional tests ran on: - NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2 / Firmware: 14.32.1010 - NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Kernel: 5.16.0-rc5 / Driver: rdma-core v38.0 / Firmware: 14.32.1010 - NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2 / Firmware: 16.32.1010 - NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Kernel: 5.16.0-rc5 / Driver: v38.0 / Firmware: 16.32.1010 - NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2 / Firmware: 22.32.1010 Compilation tests with multiple configurations in the following OS/driver combinations are also passing: - Ubuntu 20.04.3 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2. - Ubuntu 20.04.3 with rdma-core master (c52b43e). - Ubuntu 20.04.3 with rdma-core v28.0. - Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core v17.1. - Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core master (c52b43e) (i386). - Ubuntu 16.04.7 with rdma-core v22.7. - Fedora 35 with rdma-core v38.0. - Fedora 36 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v38.0 - CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (940f53f). - CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2. - CentOS 8 8.4.2105 with rdma-core master (940f53f). - OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 with rdma-core v31.0. - Windows Server 2019 with Clang 11.0.0. The only issue we found that was introduced by 20.11.4-rc1 is the following: - Bug 916 - [20.11.4-rc1][mlx5] 2% single core packet forwarding performance degradation (https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=916) We are still discussing whether we want to backport a fix to this release or not. Thanks, Ali
