21.11.4 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor]

On 20/04/2023 11:32, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> On 20/04/2023 03:40, Xu, HailinX wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Xu, HailinX <hailinx.xu at intel.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2023 2:13 PM
>>> To: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.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>; 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>; yanghliu at redhat.com; Peng, Yuan
>>> <yuan.peng at intel.com>; Chen, Zhaoyan <zhaoyan.chen at intel.com>
>>> Subject: RE: 21.11.4 patches review and test
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2023 7:38 PM
>>>> 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>; yanghliu at redhat.com; Peng, Yuan
>>>> <yuan.peng at intel.com>; Chen, Zhaoyan <zhaoyan.chen at intel.com>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> HI All,
>>>
>>> Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk21.11.4-rc1 validation test
>>> rate is 85%. No critical issue is found.
>>> 2 new bugs are found, 1 new issue is under confirming by Intel Dev.
>>> New bugs:   --20.11.8-rc1 also has these two issues
>>>     1. 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    -- no fix yet
>>>     2. some of the virtio 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, Ubuntu22.04, Fedora35, Fedora37, RHEL8.6, RHEL8.4,
>>> FreeBSD13.1, SUSE15, CentOS7.9, 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. No new dpdk issue is found.
>>> * 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.
>>> - 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 8.0, etc.
>>> - All test done. found bug1.
>>> * Cryptodev:
>>>     *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev
>>> ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
>>>       - Execution rate is 90%. found bug2.
>>>     *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput
>>> Performance/Cryptodev Latency, etc.
>>>       - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Xu, Hailin
>> Update the test status for Intel part. completed dpdk21.11.4-rc1 all validation. No critical issue is found.
> 
> Hi. Thanks for testing.
> 
>> 2 new bugs are found, 1 new issue is under confirming by Intel Dev.
>> New bugs: --20.11.8-rc1 also has these two issues
>>     1. 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  --not fix yet, Only the specified platform exists
> 
> Do you know which patch caaused the regression? I'm not fully clear from
> the Bz for 20.11. The backported patch ID'd as root cause [0] in 20.11
> is in the previous releases of 20.11 (and 21.11).
> 
> Trying to understand because then it would have shown in testing for
> previous releases. Or is this a new test introduced for latest LTS
> releases? and if so, what is the baseline performance based on?
> 
> [0]
> commit 1c9a7fba5c90e0422b517404499ed106f647bcff
> Author: Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com>
> Date:   Mon Jul 11 14:11:32 2022 +0200
> 
>       net: accept unaligned data in checksum routines
> 
>>     2. some of the virtio tests are failing: -- Intel dev is under investigating
> 
> ok, thank you.
> 

Hi, it was mentioned in a separate mail that the performance drop issue 
was not the same as 20.11.

Is there any update on that and the failing virtio tests ? Is there a 
regression introduced since in 21.11.4 ?

thanks,
Kevin,

> Kevin.
> 
>> # 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, Ubuntu22.04, Fedora35, Fedora37, RHEL8.6, RHEL8.4, FreeBSD13.1, SUSE15, CentOS7.9, 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. No new dpdk issue is found.
>> * 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 bug1.
>> * Cryptodev:
>>     *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
>>       - All test done. found bug2.
>>     *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance/Cryptodev Latency, etc.
>>       - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Xu, Hailin
>>
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