20.11.5 patches review and test

[Luca Boccassi]

On Tue, 2022-03-29 at 11:48 +0000, Jiang, YuX wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: luca.boccassi at gmail.com <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Friday, March 18, 2022 11:21 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: 20.11.5 patches review and test
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.5.
> > 
> > The planned date for the final release is the 4th of April.
> > 
> > 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=v20.11.5-rc1
> > 
> > These patches are located at branch 20.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Luca Boccassi
> > 
> > ---
> Hi Luca,
> 
> Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk20.11.5-rc1 test
> rate is 90%. Till now, no critical issue is found.
> # 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. One bug https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982,
> no fix yet.
> * PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including
> RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. 
> - Execution rate is 90%. No new issue is found. 
> * VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-
> RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN,
> etc.		
> - Execution rate is 90%. No new issue is found. 	
> * PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package
> Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible
> Descriptor, etc.
> - Execution rate is 90%. No new issue is found. 
> * Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including
> PF/VF single core performance test, RFC2544 Zero packet loss
> 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.	
> 		
> # 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. Find 5 cbdma related defects, Intel dev is
> investigating them.
> * Cryptodev: 
> *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API
> testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
> - All test passed.
> *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance
> /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
> - All test done.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Yu Jiang

Thank you - the fix for https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982 is
very simple and waiting for review.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi