[dpdk-stable] 20.11.1 patches review and test

[Luca Boccassi]

On Sun, 2021-03-07 at 14:48 +0000, Ali Alnubani wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: luca.boccassi at gmail.com <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Monday, February 22, 2021 5:09 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 nvidia.com>;
> > benjamin.walker at intel.com; David Christensen <drc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>;
> > hariprasad.govindharajan at intel.com; Hemant Agrawal
> > <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>; Ian Stokes <ian.stokes at intel.com>; Jerin
> > Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>; John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>;
> > Ju-Hyoung Lee <juhlee at microsoft.com>; Kevin Traynor
> > <ktraynor at redhat.com>; Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>; Pei Zhang
> > <pezhang at redhat.com>; pingx.yu at intel.com; qian.q.xu at intel.com; Raslan
> > Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon
> > <thomas at monjalon.net>; yuan.peng at intel.com; zhaoyan.chen at intel.com
> > Subject: 20.11.1 patches review and test
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.1.
> > 
> > The planned date for the final release is the 8th of March.
> > 
> > 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 is a list of tests that we ran on this release:
> 
> - Basic functionality:
>   Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
> - testpmd xstats counter test.
> - testpmd timestamp test.
> - Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
> - RTE flow tests:
>   Items:
>   - eth
>   - gre
>   - gre_key
>     gtp
>   - icmp
>   - icmp6
>   - ipv4
>   - ipv6
>   - ipv6_ext
>   - ipv6_frag_ext
>   - meta
>   - mpls
>   - nvgre
>   - tcp
>   - udp
>   - vlan
>   - vxlan
>   - vxlan-gpe
>   Actions:
>   - age (shared and non-shared)
>   - count
>   - dec_tcp_ack
>   - dec_tcp_seq
>   - dec_ttl
>   - drop
>   - flag
>   - inc_tcp_ack
>   - inc_tcp_seq
>   - jump
>   - mark
>   - meter
>   - of_pop_vlan
>   - of_push_vlan
>   - of_set_vlan_pcp
>   - of_set_vlan_vid
>   - queue
>   - raw_decap
>   - raw_encap
>   - rss (shared and non-shared)
>   - set_ipv4_dscp
>   - set_ipv4_dst
>   - set_ipv4_src
>   - set_ipv6_dscp
>   - set_ipv6_dst
>   - set_ipv6_src
>   - set_mac_dst
>   - set_mac_src
>   - set_meta
>   - set_tag
>   - set_tp_dst
>   - set_tp_src
>   - set_ttl
>   - vxlan_decap
>   - vxlan_encap
> - Some RSS tests.
> - VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion tests.
> - Checksum and TSO tests.
> - ptype tests.
> - link_status_interrupt example application 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-5.2-2.2.0.0 / Firmware: 14.29.2002
> - NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL7.4 / Kernel: 5.12.0-rc1 / Driver: rdma-core 34.0 / Firmware: 14.29.2002
> - NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-2.2.0.0 / Firmware: 16.29.2002
> - NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL7.4 / Kernel: 5.12.0-rc1 / Driver: rdma-core 34.0 / Firmware: 16.29.2002
> 
> Compilation tests with multiple configurations in the following OS/driver combinations are also passing:
> - Ubuntu 20.04.1 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-2.2.0.0.
> - Ubuntu 20.04.1 with rdma-core master (7f2d460).
> - Ubuntu 20.04.1 with rdma-core v28.0.
> - Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core v17.1.
> - Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core master (7f2d460) (i386).
> - Ubuntu 16.04.7 with rdma-core v22.7.
> - Fedora 32 with rdma-core v33.0.
> - CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (7f2d460).
> - CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-2.2.0.0.
> - CentOS 8 8.3.2011 with rdma-core master (7f2d460).
> - openSUSE Leap 15.2 with rdma-core v27.1.
> 
> We don't see any new issues in this release.
> 
> Regards,
> Ali

Thank you!

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi