[dpdk-stable] 19.11.6 patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani]

Hi,

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> Subject: 19.11.6 patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.6.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is December 17.
> 
> 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 test.
- testpmd timestamp test.
- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
- RTE flow tests.
- Some RSS tests.
- VLAN stripping and insertion tests.
- Checksum and TSO tests.
- ptype tests.
- l3fwd-power example application tests.
- Multi-process example applications tests.

The tests ran on:
- NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.1-2.5.8.0 / Firmware: 14.28.2006
- NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.1-2.5.8.0 / Firmware: 16.28.2006

Compilation tests in the following OS/driver combinations are also passing:
- Ubuntu 20.04 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.1-2.5.8.0.
- Ubuntu 20.04 with rdma-core master (6a5c1b7).
- Ubuntu 20.04 with rdma-core v28.0.
- Ubuntu 18.04 with rdma-core v17.1.
- Ubuntu 18.04 with rdma-core master (6a5c1b7) (i386).
- Ubuntu 16.04 with rdma-core v22.7.
- Fedora 32 with rdma-core v32.0.
- CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (6a5c1b7).
- CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.1-2.5.8.0.
- CentOS 8 8.3.2011 with rdma-core master (6a5c1b7).
- openSUSE Leap 15.2 with rdma-core v27.1.

The testing was done on v19.11.6-rc1 with the following patch applied:
http://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/1608132648-15469-1-git-send-email-viacheslavo@nvidia.com/T/#u

We don't see any critical issues blocking the release other than the debug build failure Viacheslav fixed.

Regards,
Ali