[dpdk-stable] 17.11.10 (LTS) patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani]

Hi,

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> Subject: 17.11.10 (LTS) patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 17.11.10.
> This will be the last 17.11 release.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is the 30th of January.
> 
> 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 cases were tested on Mellanox devices:
- Verify sending and receiving multiple types of traffic.
- testpmd xstats counter tests.
- testpmd timestamp tests.
- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
- RTE flow and flow_director tests.
- Some RSS tests.
- VLAN stripping and insertion tests.
- Checksum and TSO tests.
- ptype tests.
- Multi-process tests.

Testing matrix:
- NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.7-3.2.9.0 / Firmware: 14.26.4012
- NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.7-3.2.9.0 / Firmware: 16.26.4012

Current issues:
- The message “PMD: Failed to send netlink message: Bad file descriptor (9)” is shown at testpmd startup. Still didn’t debug its effect on functionality.
- ibv_icmd_create_cq () from /lib64/libibverbs.so.1 segfaults after setting the number of queues and restarting the ports.
- Enabling MLX4_PMD causes a build failure with OFED-4.7-3.2.9.0 (“error: unknown type name ‘off_t’”).
- Count action isn’t supported in rte_flow.
- Error creating rte_flow rules with vlan items.


Regards,
Ali