20.11.5 patches review and test

[Luca Boccassi]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2022 at 11:51, Christian Ehrhardt
<christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 5:29 PM Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 2022-03-28 at 14:55 +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
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>> > On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 1:50 PM Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
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>> > > On Mon, 2022-03-28 at 09:40 +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
>> > > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 4:21 PM <luca.boccassi at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > > > > Hi all,
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>> > > > > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.5.
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>> > > > Hi Luca,
>> > > > this backport
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>> > > https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=20.11&id=64452c878f225c147dfb7156e605f5b55da9f7c0
>> > > > Causes symbol changes
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>> > > https://launchpadlibrarian.net/593478119/buildlog_ubuntu-impish-amd64.dpdk_20.11.5~rc1-0ubuntu0.21.10.1~impishppa1_BUILDING.txt.gz
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>> > > > There is an exception mentioned for 21.11, but would this also
>> > > apply
>> > > > for 20.11 or should we keep it stable there?
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>> > > Thanks for the heads-up, these looked like additions to the map
>> > > file so
>> > > I overlooked them. I'll revert this in the 20.11 tree, I don't
>> > > think we
>> > > should change symbols there.
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>> > Thanks, this breaks my test builds - will there be an RC2 with it or
>> > shall I just revert it in-place for now?
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>> Revert in place please - I don't think I'll do an RC2 just for this, as
>> that would trigger more tests, and it's a build issue mostly.
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> With that revert in place it built and also tested fine in the HW and Scenarios that I have
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> 1.0.0 (06:05:54): phys (BM) tests
>   1.1.0 (06:05:54): initialize environment
>     1.1.1 (06:11:08): testpmd  => Pass
>     1.1.2 (06:12:47): check testpmd output  => Pass
> 2.0.0 (06:12:47): prep virtual test environment
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> 1.0.0 (06:15:50): virt tests
>   1.1.0 (06:15:50): initialize environment
> 3.0.0 (06:17:08): performance tests
>   3.1.0 (06:17:08): prep benchmarks
>   3.2.0 (06:17:30): performance tests
>     3.2.1 (06:17:57): test guest-openvswitch for OVS-5CPU  => Pass
>     3.2.2 (06:38:24): test guest-dpdk-vhost-user-client-multiq for OVSDPDK-VUC  => Pass
> 4.0.0 (06:59:51): VUC endurance checks
>   4.1.0 (06:59:51): prep VUC endurance tests
>     4.1.1 (07:19:20): start stop guests (client)  => Pass
>     4.1.2 (08:33:39): add/remove ports (client)  => Pass
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> That is the same set of tests as in the past, so if you want a more readable version for the docs you can use that of last time and or look in the 19.11.x series where I had them.

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