21.11.1 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor]

On 14/04/2022 05:58, Jiang, YuX wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jiang, YuX
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 4:59 PM
>> To: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>; stable at dpdk.org
>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.com>;
>> Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>; Walker, Benjamin
>> <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>; Stokes, Ian <ian.stokes at intel.com>;
>> Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>; Mcnamara, John
>> <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; Ju-Hyoung Lee <juhlee at microsoft.com>;
>> Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>; Pei Zhang <pezhang at redhat.com>; Xu,
>> Qian Q <qian.q.xu at intel.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>;
>> Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>; Peng, Yuan
>> <yuan.peng at intel.com>; Chen, Zhaoyan <zhaoyan.chen at intel.com>
>> Subject: RE: 21.11.1 patches review and test
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, April 1, 2022 6:22 PM
>>> To: stable at dpdk.org
>>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe
>> <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.com>;
>>> Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>; Walker, Benjamin
>>> <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>; Stokes, Ian <ian.stokes at intel.com>;
>>> Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>; Mcnamara, John
>>> <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>; Xu, Qian Q <qian.q.xu at intel.com>; Raslan
>>> Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>; Thomas Monjalon
>> <thomas at monjalon.net>;
>>> Peng, Yuan <yuan.peng at intel.com>; Chen, Zhaoyan
>>> <zhaoyan.chen at intel.com>
>>> Subject: 21.11.1 patches review and test
>>>
>>> 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/
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>> ---
>>
>> Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk21.11.1-rc1 test rate is 90%.
>> Till now, no critical issue is found.
>> Failure defect:
>> Bug1: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992 [dpdk 21.11.1-rc1]
>> drivers/net/cnxk/cnxk_ethdev_mtr meson build failed with cflag param
>> optimization=1 on Ubuntu20.04 with GCC10.3  > It was found in 22.03-
>> rc2(https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939), validation team apply
>> 939's patch failed. Need new patch for LTS21.11.1-rc1.
>>
>> # Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
>> * Build&CFLAG compile: cover the build test combination with latest
>> GCC/Clang/ICC version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04,
>> Fedora35, RHEL8.4, etc.
>> - All test done. Find new bug: Bug1, not fix.
>> * PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including
>> RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
>> - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
>> * VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-
>> RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
>>
>> - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
>> * PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package
>> Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible
>> Descriptor, etc.
>> - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
>> * Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single
>> core performance test, etc.
>> - All test done. No big performance drop.
>> * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test -
>> QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
>> - All test passed.
>> * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll
>> Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
>> - All test 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.
>> - All test done. No new issue is found.
>> * Cryptodev:
>> *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev
>> ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
>> - Test rate: 80%, no new issue is found currently.
>> *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance
>> /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
>> - Test rate: 80%, no new issue is found currently.
>>
> 
> Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk21.11.1-rc1 test is almost finished. Till now, no critical issue is found.

> Failure defect:
> Bug1: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992 [dpdk 21.11.1-rc1] drivers/net/cnxk/cnxk_ethdev_mtr meson build failed with cflag param optimization=1 on Ubuntu20.04 with GCC10.3
>   > Verify patchset http://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/20220413120511.566715-1-ktraynor@redhat.com/T/#u on baseline 21.11.1-rc1, test passed.
>   

Thanks for checking this. I have applied the patch to 21.11 branch now.

> # Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
> * Build&CFLAG compile: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang/ICC version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Fedora35, RHEL8.4, etc.
> - All test done. Find new bug: Bug1.
> * PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
> - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> * VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.		
> - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found. 	
> * PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
> - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> * Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, etc.
> - All test done. No big performance drop.
> * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
> - All test passed.
> * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
> - All test 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.
> - All test done. 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.
> *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
> - All test done.
> 

Thanks for all your testing.

Kevin.

> Best regards,
> Yu Jiang