20.11.8 patches review and test

[YangHang Liu]

Hi  Luca,

RedHat QE does not find new issues about the v20.11.8-rc1 dpdk during the
tests.

We tested below 18 scenarios and all got PASS on RHEL9:

   - Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size):
   PASS
   - Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size)
   : PASS
   - Guest with device assignment(VF) throughput testing: PASS
   - PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing: PASS
   - PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing: PASS
   - PVP vhost-user 1Q - cross numa node throughput testing: PASS
   - Guest with vhost-user 2 queues throughput testing: PASS
   - vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server qemu reconnect: PASS
   - vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server ovs reconnect: PASS
   - PVP  reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: PASS
   - PVP 1Q live migration testing: PASS
   - PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing: PASS
   - Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing: PASS
   - Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M): PASS
   - Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing: PASS
   - Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing: PASS
   - Host PF + DPDK testing: PASS
   - Host VF + DPDK testing: PASS

Test Versions:

   - qemu-kvm-6.2.0
   - kernel 5.14
   - v20.11.8 dpdk

# git log
commit f18508a65db3305faf335376754d052eb4e640fb (tag: v20.11.8-rc1)
Author: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
Date: Fri Mar 31 19:15:02 2023 +0100
version: 20.11.8-rc1
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>


   - Test device : X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)

Best Regards,
YangHang Liu



On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 11:15 PM Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: luca.boccassi at gmail.com <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Friday, March 31, 2023 9:20 PM
> > To: stable at dpdk.org
> > Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.com>;
> > Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>; benjamin.walker at intel.com; David
> > Christensen <drc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Hemant Agrawal
> > <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>; Ian Stokes <ian.stokes at intel.com>; Jerin
> > Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>; John McNamara <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>; qian.q.xu at intel.com; Raslan Darawsheh
> > <rasland at nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL)
> > <thomas at monjalon.net>; Yanghang Liu <yanghliu at redhat.com>;
> > yuan.peng at intel.com; zhaoyan.chen at intel.com
> > Subject: 20.11.8 patches review and test
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.8.
> >
> > The planned date for the final release is April 17th.
> >
> > 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=v20.11.8-rc1
> >
> > These patches are located at branch 20.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Luca Boccassi
> >
> > ---
>
> Hello,
>
> We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on v20.11.8-rc1:
> - Basic functionality:
>   Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
> - testpmd xstats counter test.
> - testpmd timestamp test.
> - Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
> - rte_flow tests.
> - Some RSS tests.
> - VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion tests.
> - Checksum and TSO tests.
> - ptype tests.
> - link_status_interrupt example application tests.
> - l3fwd-power example application tests.
> - Multi-process example applications tests.
> - Hardware LRO tests.
>
> Functional tests ran on:
> - NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver:
> MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.9-0.5.6.0 / Firmware: 22.36.1010
> - NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.9-0.5.6.0
> / Firmware: 22.36.1010
> - DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 1.5.1 / Firmware: 24.35.2000
>
> Additionally, we ran compilation tests with multiple configurations in the
> following OS/driver combinations:
> - Ubuntu 20.04.5 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.9-0.5.6.0.
> - Ubuntu 20.04.5 with rdma-core master (f0a079f).
> - Ubuntu 20.04.5 with rdma-core v28.0.
> - Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core v17.1.
> - Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core master (f0a079f) (i386).
> - Fedora 37 with rdma-core v41.0.
> - Fedora 39 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v44.0.
> - CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (f0a079f).
> - CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.9-0.5.6.0.
> - CentOS 8 8.4.2105 with rdma-core master (f0a079f).
> - OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 with rdma-core v38.1.
> - Windows Server 2019 with Clang 11.0.0.
>
> We don't see new issues caused by the changes in this release.
>
> Please note that not all the functional tests mentioned above fall under
> "Basic functionality with testpmd" like reported in the release notes for
> previous releases:
>
> https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=v20.11.7&id=62865fef48cb93042e8b9f85821eb02e1031e8f0
> Some of them test other applications.
>
> Thanks,
> Ali
>
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