[dpdk-dev] 18.11.10 (LTS) patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor]

On 20/09/2020 16:10, Ali Alnubani wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Monday, September 7, 2020 1:12 PM
>> To: stable at dpdk.org
>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.com>;
>> Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal at nxp.com>; Ali Alnubani <alialnu at mellanox.com>;
>> benjamin.walker at intel.com; David Christensen <drc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>;
>> Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>; Ian Stokes
>> <ian.stokes at intel.com>; Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>; John McNamara
>> <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; Ju-Hyoung Lee <juhlee at microsoft.com>;
>> Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>; Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>;
>> Pei Zhang <pezhang at redhat.com>; pingx.yu at intel.com;
>> qian.q.xu at intel.com; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at mellanox.com>; NBU-
>> Contact-Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>; yuan.peng at intel.com;
>> zhaoyan.chen at intel.com
>> Subject: 18.11.10 (LTS) patches review and test
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 18.11.10.
>>
>> The planned date for the final release is 21 September.
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 
> 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 tests.
> - testpmd timestamp tests.
> - Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
> - RTE flow and flow_director tests:
>   Items: eth / vlan / ipv4 / ipv6 / tcp / udp / gre
>   Actions: drop / queue / rss / mark / flag
> - Some RSS tests.
> - VLAN stripping and insertion tests.
> - Checksum and TSO tests.
> - ptype tests.
> - l3fwd-power example application tests.
> - Multi-process example applications tests.
> 
> Testing matrix:
> - NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.1-0.6.6.0 / Firmware: 14.28.1002
> - NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.1-2.3.7.1 / Firmware: 14.28.2006
> - NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.1-0.6.6.0 / Firmware: 16.28.1002
> - NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.1-2.3.7.1 / Firmware: 16.28.2006
> 
> We don't see any critical issues blocking the release.
> 

Thanks for testing and reporting Ali.

Kevin.

> Regards,
> Ali
>