[dpdk-stable] 18.11.9 (LTS) patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor]

On 30/06/2020 09:54, Ali Alnubani wrote:
> Hi,
> 

Hi Ali,

Thanks for testing.

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 3:53 PM
>> To: stable at dpdk.org
>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.com>;
>> 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
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>> Subject: 18.11.9 (LTS) patches review and test
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 18.11.9.
>>
>> The planned date for the final release is 3rd July.
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 
> We ran the following tests on Mellanox hardware for this version:
> - Basic functionality:
>   Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
> - testpmd xstats counter tests.
> - testpmd timestamp tests.
> - Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
> - RTE flow and flow_director tests:
>   Items: eth / vlan / ipv4 / ipv6 / tcp / udp / gre
>   Actions: drop / queue / rss / mark / flag
> - Some RSS tests.
> - VLAN stripping and insertion tests.
> - Checksum and TSO tests.
> - ptype tests.
> - l3fwd-power example application tests.
> - Multi-process example applications tests.
> 
> Testing matrix:
> - NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.0-2.1.8.0 / Firmware: 14.27.1016
> - NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.0-2.1.8.0 / Firmware: 16.27.2008
> 
> We found 2 issues:
> - Failure to restart ports with kernels newer than 5.6 (call to mmap failed on UAR for txq).
> - Applications fail to start with CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_DEBUG enabled (mlx5_ifindex: Assertion `priv->if_index' failed).

Are these regressions? i.e. does 18.11.8 fail in the same way in the
same testbed

> We are discussing these issues internally, and we see no other regressions blocking the release.
> 

ok, please let me know the outcome and if any patches need to be
added/removed to resolve these issues.

thanks,
Kevin.

> Regards,
> Ali
>