Re: 21.11.3 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor]

On 15/12/2022 17:51, Ali Alnubani wrote:

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Subject: 21.11.3 patches review and test

Hi all,

Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.3.

The planned date for the final release is 19th 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=v21.11.3-rc1

These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/

Thanks.

Kevin

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Hello,

We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on 21.11.3-rc1:
- 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:
   - ecpri
   - eth
   - flex
   - geneve
   - geneve_opt
   - gre
   - gre_key
   - gre_option
   - gtp
   - gtp_psc
   - icmp
   - icmp6
   - integrity
   - ipv4
   - ipv6
   - ipv6_frag_ext
   - mark
   - meta
   - mpls
   - nvgre
   - tag
   - tcp
   - udp
   - vlan
   - vxlan
   - vxlan_gpe

   Actions:
   - age
   - count
   - dec_tcp_ack
   - dec_tcp_seq
   - dec_ttl
   - drop
   - flag
   - inc_tcp_ack
   - inc_tcp_seq
   - jump
   - mark
   - meter
   - modify_field
   - nvgre_decap
   - nvgre_encap
   - of_pop_vlan
   - of_push_vlan
   - of_set_vlan_pcp
   - of_set_vlan_vid
   - queue
   - raw_decap
   - raw_encap
   - rss
   - sample
   - 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.
- Regex application tests.
- Buffer Split tests.
- Tx scheduling tests.

Functional tests ran on:
- NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: 
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-1.0.1.1 / Firmware: 14.32.1010
- NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-1.0.1.1 
/ Firmware: 16.35.1012
- NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: 
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.7-1.0.2.0 / Firmware: 22.35.1012
- DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 1.5.0 / Firmware: 24.35.1012

We don't see any new issues in functional testing caused by changes in this 
release.

Additionally, we ran compilation tests with multiple configurations on the 
following OS/driver combinations:
- Ubuntu 22.04.1 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-1.1.2.1.
- Ubuntu 20.04.5 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-1.1.2.1.
- Ubuntu 20.04.5 with rdma-core master (76cfaa1).
- Ubuntu 20.04.5 with rdma-core v28.0.
- Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core v17.1.
- Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core master (76cfaa1) (i386).
- Ubuntu 16.04.7 with rdma-core v22.7.
- Fedora 37 with rdma-core v41.0.
- Fedora 38 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v41.0.
- CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (76cfaa1).
- CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-1.0.1.1.
- CentOS 8 8.4.2105 with rdma-core master (76cfaa1).
- OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 with rdma-core v38.1.
- Windows Server 2019 with Clang 11.0.0.

The builds are passing on most OS except for Fedora 37 and 38, where I have the 
following issues:
- Bug 1149 - [21.11] lib/ring build failure with gcc 12 and debug enabled 
(https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1149)
- Bug 1150 - [21.11] failure to build API's html docs on Fedora 37 
(https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1150)

Thanks for testing Ali. I will take a look at these.
Kevin.

Thanks,
Ali