[dpdk-stable] 18.11.2 (LTS) patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes at intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2019 11:16 AM
> To: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>; dpdk stable <stable at dpdk.org>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Sitong Liu <siliu at redhat.com>; Pei Zhang
> <pezhang at redhat.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at mellanox.com>;
> qian.q.xu at intel.com; Ju-Hyoung Lee <juhlee at microsoft.com>; Ali Alnubani
> <alialnu at mellanox.com>; David Christensen <drc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>;
> benjamin.walker at intel.com; Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>;
> John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; Luca Boccassi
> <bluca at debian.org>; Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj at marvell.com>;
> Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>; Akhil Goyal
> <akhil.goyal at nxp.com>
> Subject: Re: 18.11.2 (LTS) patches review and test
> 
> On 5/21/2019 3:01 PM, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 18.11.2.
> >
> > The planned date for the final release is 11th June.
> >
> > Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report
> > any issues/results. For the final release I will update the release
> > notes with fixes and reported validations.

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> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Kevin Traynor
> >
> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> I've validated with current head OVS Master and OVS 2.11.1 with VSPERF.
> Tested with i40e (X710), i40eVF, ixgbe (82599ES), ixgbeVF, igb(I350) and
> igbVF devices.
> 
> Following tests were conducted and passed:
> 
> * vswitch_p2p_tput: vSwitch - configure switch and execute RFC2544
> throughput test.
> * vswitch_p2p_cont: vSwitch - configure switch and execute RFC2544
> continuous stream test.
> * vswitch_pvp_tput: vSwitch - configure switch, vnf and execute RFC2544
> throughput test.
> * vswitch_pvp_cont: vSwitch - configure switch, vnf and execute RFC2544
> continuous stream test.
> * ovsdpdk_hotplug_attach: Ensure successful port-add after binding a device
> to igb_uio after ovs-vswitchd is launched.
> * ovsdpdk_mq_p2p_rxqs: Setup rxqs on NIC port.
> * ovsdpdk_mq_pvp_rxqs: Setup rxqs on vhost user port.
> * ovsdpdk_mq_pvp_rxqs_linux_bridge: Confirm traffic received over vhost
> RXQs with Linux virtio device in guest.
> * ovsdpdk_mq_pvp_rxqs_testpmd: Confirm traffic received over vhost RXQs
> with DPDK device in guest.
> * ovsdpdk_vhostuser_client: Test vhost-user client mode.
> * ovsdpdk_vhostuser_client_reconnect: Test vhost-user client mode
> reconnect feature.
> * ovsdpdk_vhostuser_server: Test vhost-user server mode.
> * ovsdpdk_vhostuser_sock_dir: Verify functionality of vhost-sock-dir flag.
> * ovsdpdk_vdev_add_null_pmd: Test addition of port using the null DPDK
> PMD driver.
> * ovsdpdk_vdev_del_null_pmd: Test deletion of port using the null DPDK
> PMD driver.
> * ovsdpdk_vdev_add_af_packet_pmd: Test addition of port using the
> af_packet DPDK PMD driver.
> * ovsdpdk_vdev_del_af_packet_pmd: Test deletion of port using the
> af_packet DPDK PMD driver.
> * ovsdpdk_numa: Test vhost-user NUMA support. Vhostuser PMD threads
> should migrate to the same numa slot, where QEMU is executed.
> * ovsdpdk_jumbo_p2p: Ensure that jumbo frames are received, processed
> and forwarded correctly by DPDK physical ports.
> * ovsdpdk_jumbo_pvp: Ensure that jumbo frames are received, processed
> and forwarded correctly by DPDK vhost-user ports.
> * ovsdpdk_jumbo_p2p_upper_bound: Ensure that jumbo frames above the
> configured Rx port's MTU are not accepted.
> * ovsdpdk_jumbo_mtu_upper_bound_vport: Verify that the upper bound
> limit is enforced for OvS DPDK vhost-user ports.
> * ovsdpdk_rate_p2p: Ensure when a user creates a rate limiting physical
> interface that the traffic is limited to the specified policer rate in a p2p setup.
> * ovsdpdk_rate_pvp: Ensure when a user creates a rate limiting vHost User
> interface that the traffic is limited to the specified policer rate in a pvp setup.
> * ovsdpdk_qos_p2p: In a p2p setup, ensure when a QoS egress policer is
> created that the traffic is limited to the specified rate.
> * ovsdpdk_qos_pvp: In a pvp setup, ensure when a QoS egress policer is
> created that the traffic is limited to the specified rate.
> * phy2phy_scalability: LTD.Scalability.Flows.RFC2544.0PacketLoss
> * phy2phy_scalability_cont: Phy2Phy Scalability Continuous Stream
> * pvp_cont: PVP Continuous Stream
> * pvvp_cont: PVVP Continuous Stream
> * pvpv_cont: Two VMs in parallel with Continuous Stream
> 
> Regards
> Ian

Hi,

I validated this version and sent our testing matrix:
http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2019-May/015198.html

Thanks,
Ali