Hi Ali, Thanks very much for your support!
On Thu, 2021-12-23 at 14:52 +0000, Ali Alnubani wrote: > 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://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdpdk.org%2Fbrowse%2Fdpdk-stable%2Ftag%2F%3Fid%3Dv20.11.4-rc1&data=04%7C01%7Cxuemingl%40nvidia.com%7C4df7aa57e1ed4e9e263308d9c623e4d0%7C43083d15727340c1b7db39efd9ccc17a%7C0%7C0%7C637758679724411133%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=jX1ppD4x%2FH3x%2FWZLI6bMP7LiUZxKPZCmks6AH7wm88c%3D&reserved=0 > > > > These patches are located at branch 20.11 of dpdk-stable repo: > > > > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdpdk.org%2Fbrowse%2Fdpdk-stable%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cxuemingl%40nvidia.com%7C4df7aa57e1ed4e9e263308d9c623e4d0%7C43083d15727340c1b7db39efd9ccc17a%7C0%7C0%7C637758679724411133%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=59XOMTcOVxkUmeWeg0SM8GHgGapaOLdm2oONMq7fvqQ%3D&reserved=0 > > > > 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
