[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] 18.11.3 (LTS) patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani]

Hi,

Replaying here because I can't find the first email in the thread.

Regarding testing results with Mellanox devices, we did basic functional testing with testpmd, and don't see any issues.

Testing matrix:
- NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL 7.4 / Kernel: 5.3.0 / Driver: rdma-core v25.1 / fw: 16.26.1040
- NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL 7.4 / Kernel: 5.3.0 / Driver: rdma-core v25.1 / fw: 14.26.1040
- NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL 7.4 / Kernel: 3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.7-1.0.0.1 / fw: 16.26.1040
- NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL 7.4 / Kernel: 3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.7-1.0.0.1 / fw: 14.26.1040

I apologize for the delay in reporting our results.

Thanks,
Ali

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:55 PM
> To: Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.com>
> Cc: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>; Ju-Hyoung Lee
> <juhlee at microsoft.com>; stable at dpdk.org; dev at dpdk.org; 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>; 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>; Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas at monjalon.net>; yuan.peng at intel.com; zhaoyan.chen at intel.com
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] 18.11.3 (LTS) patches review and test
> 
> Azure image: 'Canonical UbuntuServer 18.04-DAILY-LTS latest':
> >
> > * PERF-DPDK-SINGLE-CORE-PPS-DS4: FAILED
> > * VERIFY-DPDK-OVS: PASSED
> > * VERIFY-DPDK-BUILD-AND-TESTPMD-TEST: PASSED
> > * VERIFY-SRIOV-FAILSAFE-FOR-DPDK: PASSED
> > * PERF-DPDK-MULTICORE-PPS-F32: FAILED
> 
> Hi Abhishek,
> since you use the daily LTS image and see such a significant change compared
> to before, could it by any chance be that this made you switch from kernel
> 4.15 to 5.0.
> Because by the normal HWE policy [1] this got into Bionic rebuilds and it
> seems [2] the same is true for linux-azure kernel flavours.
> 
> Could you check your logs if the kernel version changed between the old and
> the new runs?
> An alternative might be to rerun 18.11.2 to see if it drops as well, which might
> indicate that it wasn't 18.11.2 -> 18.11.3 but something else like the kernel.
> 
> Not sure if that old kernel is ok, but you always can go back to what a version
> was released with. So in this case package linux-azure=4.15.0.1009.9 is still
> there and you could try
> 18.11.3 with that maybe?
> 
> Let me know if you need help changing kernels there.
> 
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