Re: 21.11.5 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor]

On 24/08/2023 07:07, Xu, HailinX wrote:

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Subject: 21.11.5 patches review and test

Hi all,

Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.5.

The planned date for the final release is 22nd August.

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=v21.11.5-rc1

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

Thanks.

Kevin

Update the test status for Intel part. completed dpdk21.11.5-rc1 all 
validation. No new issue is found.

# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* Build & CFLAG compile: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang 
version and the popular OS revision such as
   Ubuntu20.04, Ubuntu22.04, Fedora35, Fedora38, RHEL8.4, RHEL9.2, FreeBSD13.1, 
SUSE15, CentOS7.9, etc.
   - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
* PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum 
offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
   - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
* VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum 
offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.                
   - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow 
Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
   - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single 
core performance test, etc.
   - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - 
QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
   - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
                
# Basic cryptodev and virtio testing
* Virtio: both function and performance test are covered. Such as 
PVP/Virtio_loopback/virtio-user loopback/virtio-net VM2VM perf testing/VMAWARE 
ESXI 8.0, etc.
   - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
* Cryptodev:
  *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev 
ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
   - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
  *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance/Cryptodev 
Latency, etc.
   - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.

Regards,
Xu, Hailin

Thank you for testing and report. Kevin.