20.11.4 patches review and test

[Jiang, YuX]

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> From: Xueming Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>
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> Subject: 20.11.4 patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.4.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is 31th December.
> 
> 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.
> 
> A release candidate tarball can be found at:
> 
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v20.11.4-rc1
> 
> These patches are located at branch 20.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Xueming Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>
> 
Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk20.11.4-rc1 test execution rate is 80%. Currently, find three bugs, two bugs have fix now.
# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* Build or compile:  
	*Build: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang/ICC version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Fedora34, RHEL8.4, etc.
		- All test done.
		- Two bugs are found in 20.11.4-rc1.
			- dpdk-20.11.4]kernel/linux/kni/rte_kni.ko build failed on OpenSuse15.3 with gcc7.5.0&clang11.0.1
				- fix link: http://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/20211208103410.835542-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com/T/#u , verify passed by Intel
			- https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=894  [dpdk-20.11.4] lib/librte_eal.a.p/librte_eal_common_rte_random.c.obj build failed on WIN10 with clang8.0.0
				- fix link: http://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/20211207141644.369624-1-dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com/T/#u, verify passed by Intel
	* PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. 
		- All test done. No new issue is found. 
	* VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.		
		- All test done. No new issue is found. 	
	* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Share code update/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
		- Execution rate is 80%. No new issue is found.
	* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, RFC2544 Zero packet loss performance test, etc.
		- Execution rate is 50%. No big performance drop.
	* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
		- All passed.			
# Basic cryptodev and virtio testing
	* Virtio: both function and performance test are covered. Such as PVP/Virtio_loopback/virtio-user loopback/virtio-net VM2VM perf testing/VMAWARE ESXI 7.0u3, etc.
		- Execution rate is 80%. No new issue is found.
	* Cryptodev: 
		*Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
			- All test done.
			- One new bug about "[dpdk-LTS-20.11.4-rc1] cryptodev_qat_asym_autotest is failing" is found, Intel dev is under investigating.
				bad commit id is commit 2f2c2b5b7e7ae4942b4b3686bce2eb856fee447d
				Author: Przemyslaw Zegan <przemyslawx.zegan at intel.com>
				Date: Wed Nov 3 15:08:23 2021 +0000
				common/qat: fix queue pairs number
		*Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
			- All test done.