22.11.3 patches review and test

[Xueming(Steven) Li]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xu, HailinX <hailinx.xu at intel.com>
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> Subject: RE: 22.11.3 patches review and test
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xueming Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2023 2:14 PM
> > To: stable at dpdk.org
> > Cc: xuemingl at nvdia.com; 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: 22.11.3 patches review and test
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 22.11.3.
> >
> > The planned date for the final release is 31th 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.
> >
> > A release candidate tarball can be found at:
> >
> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v22.11.3-rc1
> >
> > These patches are located at branch 22.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
> We are conducting DPDK testing and have found two issues.
> 
> 1. The startup speed of testpmd is significantly slower in the os of SUSE
>   This issue fix patch has been merged into main, But it has not backported to
> 22.11.3.
>   Fix patch commit id on DPDK main:
> 7e7b6762eac292e78c77ad37ec0973c0c944b845

Hailin, thanks for the verification and feedback!
From original patch discussion, the origin decision is no backport, that's why
"cc:stable at dpdk.org" get removed.

> 
> 2. The SCTP tunnel packet of iavf cannot be forwarded in avx512 mode
>   commit 9b7215f150d0bfc5cb00fce68ff08e5217c7f2b3 on v22.11.3-rc1.
>   This commit is for the new feature (avx512 checksum offload) in DPDK 23.03,
> which should not be backported to the LTS version since avx512 checksum
> offload is not supported in v22.11.3 LTS.

Okay, I'll revert this patch. Please note the patch has been backported to 21.11,
Do we want to fix it? @Kevin Traynor

> 
> Regards,
> Xu, Hailin