[dpdk-stable] 18.11.11 (LTS) patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani]

Hi,

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> Subject: [dpdk-stable] 18.11.11 (LTS) patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 18.11.11.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is 19th January.
> 
> Note, this is the last planned release of 18.11 LTS, and it will be unmaintained
> after this release, so I encourage anyone who is using
> 18.11 LTS to test.
> 
> 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 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.
- l3fwd-power example application tests.
- Multi-process example applications tests.

Functional tests ran on:
- NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-1.0.4.0 / Firmware: 14.29.1016
- NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-1.0.4.0 / Firmware: 16.29.1016

We don't see any issues introduced by the new changes in this release, however, we found the following issues while testing due to environment changes:
- Bug 615 - testpmd gets stuck when deleting an FDIR flow - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615 - Won't fix.
- Bug 616 - [mlx5] packet does not match a corresponding rte_flow rule due to inner ether_type spec validation - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616 - Won't fix.
- Bug 617 - [mlx5] packet does not match a corresponding rte_flow rule due to vxlan vni spec validation - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617 - Won't fix.
- Bug 618 - [mlx5] secondary process fails to start - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618 - We are still looking into this.

Regards,
Ali