[dpdk-stable] 16.11.9 (LTS) patches review and test

[Luca Boccassi]

On Thu, 2019-01-24 at 09:43 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-12-22 at 11:15 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Dec 2018, 11:35 Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 2018-12-10 at 18:38 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2018-11-29 at 16:23 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 16.11.9.
> > > > > Please
> > > > > help review and test. The planned date for the final release
> > > > > is
> > > > > December the 10th.
> > > > > Before that, please shout if anyone has objections with these
> > > > > patches being applied.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Also for the companies committed to running regression tests,
> > > > > please run the tests and report any issue before the release
> > > > > date
> > > > > by
> > > > > replying to this email.
> > > > > 
> > > > > This will be the last 16.11 point release. As with all good
> > > > > things,
> > > > > it
> > > > > must come to an end!
> > > > > 
> > > > > A release candidate tarball can be found at:
> > > > > 
> > > > >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v16.11.9-rc1
> > > > > 
> > > > > These patches are located at branch 16.11 of dpdk-stable
> > > > > repo:
> > > > >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Luca Boccassi
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Unfortunately due to the conference and other commitments it
> > > > was
> > > > not
> > > > possible to have the test results of 16.11.9-rc1 yet, so the
> > > > final
> > > > release will have to be postponed.
> > > > Tentative date is a week from now, on December the 17th.
> > > > 
> > > > Apologies if this delay causes any issue.
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > For the same reasons, unfortunately we have to delay the 16.11.9
> > > release further. The tentative release date is now Friday the
> > > 21st.
> > > 
> > > Apologies if this delay causes any issue.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Luca Boccassi
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Unfortunately test results are yet not ready, so I have to postpone
> > again.
> > I will send a further update when a tentative date becomes clearer.
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > Luca Boccassi
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Due to conferences, holidays and other higher priority deliverables
> the
> regression tests on 16.11.9 has still to be ran. The newest estimate
> is
> by the end of February - with the alternative being releasing now
> without the testing.
> During the release meeting we agreed that, unless there are
> objections
> and urgent requirements to have 16.11.9 release in January, we will
> wait for the regressions and postpone to end of February. Please let
> us
> know if there are any objections.
> 
> Again, apologies for this delay.

Hi,

Testing results came back, there are known issues with bonding and GRE
checksum offloads (i40e) that were also affecting previous releases, no
new regressions have been found.

Therefore, I'll proceed to tag 16.11.9 later today.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi