20.11.8 patches review and test

[Luca Boccassi]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 06:17, Xu, HailinX <hailinx.xu at intel.com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xu, HailinX
> > Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2023 3:19 PM
> > To: luca.boccassi at gmail.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>;
> > 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: RE: 20.11.8 patches review and test
> >
> > Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk20.11.8-rc1 validation test
> > rate is 80%. No critical issue is found.
> > 2 new bugs are found, These 2 issues are being confirmed by Intel Dev.
> > New bugs:
> >   bug1. softnic and metering_and_policing: create rule failed  -- Intel dev is
> > under investigating.
> >   bug2. some of the unit tests are failing:  -- Intel dev is under investigating #
> > Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
> > * Build & CFLAG compile: cover the build test combination with latest
> > GCC/Clang version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Fedora36,
> > RHEL8.4, etc.
> > - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> > * PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including
> > RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
> > - Execution rate is 80%. 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.
> > - Execution rate is 70%. No new dpdk issue is found.
> > * Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single
> > core performance test, etc.
> > - Execution rate is 80%. No new dpdk issue is found.
> > * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test -
> > QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
> > - on going.
> >
> > # 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.
> > - Execution rate is 95%. No new dpdk issue is found.
> > * Cryptodev:
> >   *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev
> > ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
> >     - Execution rate is 95%. bug2 was found.
> >   *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput
> > Performance/Cryptodev Latency, etc.
> >     - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Xu, Hailin
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: luca.boccassi at gmail.com <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
> > > Sent: Saturday, April 1, 2023 2:20 AM
> > > 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: 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
> Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk20.11.8-rc1 validation test rate is 98%. No critical issue is found.
> 4 new bugs are found, These 3 issues are being confirmed by Intel Dev.
> New bugs:
>   1. softnic and metering_and_policing: create rule failed -- Intel dev is under investigating.
>   2. some of the unit tests are failing: -- Intel dev is under investigating
>   3. pvp_qemu_multi_paths_port_restart:perf_pvp_qemu_vector_rx_mac: performance drop about 23.5% when send small packets
>         https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212
>   4. large_vf/3_vfs_256_queues："OP_DEL_RSS_INPUT_CFG" error appears when exiting testpmd  -- Intel dev is under investigating
> # Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
> * Build & CFLAG compile: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Fedora36, RHEL8.4, etc.
> - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> * 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. found bug4.
> * Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, etc.
> - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
> - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
>
> # 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 8.0, etc.
> - All test done. found bug3.
> * Cryptodev:
>   *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
>     - Execution rate is 95%. found bug2.
>   *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance/Cryptodev Latency, etc.
>     - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
>
> Regards,
> Xu, Hailin

Hi,

Any news about the other 3 issues that were pending investigation?