21.11.4 patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2023 2:38 PM
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> Subject: 21.11.4 patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.4.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is 25th 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=v21.11.4-rc1
> 
> These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> ---

We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on 21.11.4-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.
- Regex application tests.
- Buffer Split tests.
- Tx scheduling 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=v21.11.3&id=31608e4db56893c896375288671b5ee38723a211
Some of them test other applications.

Thanks,
Ali