19.11.13 patches review and test

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 9:37 AM Jiang, YuX <yux.jiang at intel.com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2022 4:22 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>; 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>; Yanghang Liu
> > <yanghliu at redhat.com>; Peng, Yuan <yuan.peng at intel.com>; Chen,
> > Zhaoyan <zhaoyan.chen at intel.com>
> > Subject: 19.11.13 patches review and test
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is -rc3 just after -rc2 as a build issue was hiding in the former.
> > Sorry for the extra noise, but other than that it all stays the same.
> >
> > there were three patches close to the deadline that I missed and I
> > considered postponing them to 19.11.14 at first. But in the meantime there
> > arrived 11 more and I think that justfies a new tag for 19.11.13.
> >
> > We still have almost 4 weeks left - I hope that is ok.
> >
> > Here is the combined list of patches (the same as before plus the new 14)
> > targeted for stable release 19.11.13.
> >
> > The planned date for the final release is August 29th.
> >
> > 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=v19.11.13-rc3
> >
> > These patches are located at branch 19.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> >
> > ---
> Update the test status for Intel part. DPDK19.11.13-rc3 almost test finished, no critical issue is found, but also find some new bugs on FreeBSD13.0.

So we are only seeing old and new build failures which we are happy to
resolve if patches are provided but "ok to stay".
Great to know that there were no functional regressions found.

Thanks Yu Jiang!

> New report defects for build:
>   1, https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1064 [19.11.13-rc3] lib/eal make build failed with gcc10.3.0 and clang11.0.1 on FreeBSD13.0/64
>         > Not found such issue on FreeBSD13.1
>   2, https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1063 [19.11.13-rc3] drivers/net/i40e on meson build failure with clang13.0 on FreeBSD13.1/64
>         > Not found such issue on FreeBSD13.0, Intel Dev is investigating.
> Known defects for build:
>   1, [dpdk 19.11.13-rc1] lib/librte_eal meson build error with gcc12.1 on fedora36, similar as https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=985
>         > Not found such issue on Fedora35. Dev said that looks like a GCC13 BUG
>   2, [dpdk 19.11.13-rc1] drivers/net/ena make build error with gcc12.1 on fedora36, similar as https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991
>         > No update in bugzilla, no fix yet.
>   3, https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=912 [dpdk 19.11.13-rc1] drivers/net/qede make build error with clang14 on fedora36/redhat8.6/UB22.04
>         > Known issue, no update in bugzilla, no fix yet.
>
> # Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
> * Build: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04&22.04, Fedora36, RHEL8.4, etc.
>         - All test done.
> * PF&VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
>         - All test done. No new bug is found.
> * PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx, etc.
>         - All test done. No new issue is found.
>         - Known bug about [dpdk-19.11.12] metering_and_policing/ipv4_HASH_table_RFC2698: unable to forward packets normally. Intel Dev is still investigating.
> * Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test etc.
>         - All test done. No big performance drop.
>
> # 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, 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/ etc.
>         - All test done. No new issue is found.
> * Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
>         - All test done. No performance drop.
>
> Best regards,
> Yu Jiang



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Christian Ehrhardt
Senior Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd