21.11.1 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor]

On 20/04/2022 06:50, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 12:22 PM Kevin Traynor<ktraynor at redhat.com>  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.1.
>>
>> Please try and complete validation by April 13th.
>>
>> 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=v21.11.1-rc1
>>
>> These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>>      https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> Hi Kevin,
> now that the ABI change discussion has somewhat settled I have run the
> tests ignoring the symbols changes for now.
> All LGTM on Ubuntu 22.04 + OVS 2.17 + DPDK 21.11.1-rc1
> 
> 1.0.0 (11:42:53): phys (BM) tests
>    1.1.0 (11:42:53): initialize environment
>      1.1.1 (11:44:54): testpmd  => Pass
>      1.1.2 (11:45:43): check testpmd output  => Pass
> 2.0.0 (11:45:43): prep virtual test environment
> 
> 1.0.0 (11:48:05): virt tests
>    1.1.0 (11:48:05): initialize environment
> 3.0.0 (11:49:30): performance tests
>    3.1.0 (11:49:30): prep benchmarks
>    3.2.0 (11:49:51): performance tests
>      3.2.1 (11:50:02): test guest-openvswitch for OVS-5CPU  => Pass
>      3.2.2 (12:09:30): test guest-dpdk-vhost-user-client-multiq for
> OVSDPDK-VUC  => Pass
> 4.0.0 (12:28:54): VUC endurance checks
>    4.1.0 (12:28:54): prep VUC endurance tests
>      4.1.1 (12:41:59): start stop guests (client)  => Pass
>      4.1.2 (13:48:30): add/remove ports (client)  => Pass
>    4.2.0 (13:58:11): Final cleanup
> 
> The above is kind of a high level test log, for the validation section
> of a stable release I usually use:
> 
> * Build tests of DPDK & OVS 2.13.3 on Ubuntu 20.04 (meson based)
> * Functional and performance tests based on OVS-DPDK on x86_64
> * Autopkgtests for DPDK and OpenvSwitch
> 
> 

Thanks for the testing and Christian. I will add your summary to the 
validation section.