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

[Kevin Traynor]

On 14/01/2021 15:11, Ali Alnubani wrote:
> Hi,
> 

Hi Ali,

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stable <stable-bounces at dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Kevin Traynor
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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
> 

Thanks for your testing.

> 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.

We can put these in the known issues section of the release notes.

> - Bug 618 - [mlx5] secondary process fails to start - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618 - We are still looking into this.
> 

Ok, I'll keep an eye on the Bz and please add me on Cc: if there are
patches to fix it and I can run them through the 18.11 build checks etc.

thanks,
Kevin.

> Regards,
> Ali
>