21.11.5 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor]

On 17/08/2023 10:45, Ali Alnubani wrote:
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>> Subject: 21.11.5 patches review and test
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.5.
>>
>> The planned date for the final release is 22nd August.
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on 21.11.5-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-23.07-0.5.0.0 / Firmware: 22.38.1002
> - NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.07-0.5.0.0 / Firmware: 28.38.1002
> - DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 2.2.0 / Firmware: 24.38.1002
> 
> 
> Build tests (all passed):
> - Ubuntu 22.04.2 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.07-0.5.0.0.
> - Ubuntu 20.04.6 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.04-1.1.3.0.
> - Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core master (aba30bd).
> - Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core v28.0.
> - Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core master (aba30bd) (i386).
> - Fedora 38 with rdma-core v44.0.
> - Fedora 39 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v46.0.
> - OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 with rdma-core v42.0.
> - Windows Server 2019 with Clang 11.0.0.
> 
> We're investigating some internal test failures due to changes in environment, but we don't see new issues introduced by new changes in this rc yet, so we're ok to release.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ali

Thanks for testing and report Ali. I will add to the release validation 
notes.

Kevin.