21.11.7 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor]

On 26/04/2024 10:04, Xu, HailinX wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2024 8:34 PM
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>> Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>; David Christensen
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>> Subject: 21.11.7 patches review and test
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.7.
>>
>> The planned date for the final release is 30th 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=v21.11.7-rc1
>>
>> These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Kevin
> 
> Update the test status for Intel part. completed dpdk21.11.7-rc1 all validation. No new issue is found.
> 
> # 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, Fedora39, RHEL8.9, RHEL9.2, FreeBSD14.0, SUSE15, CentOS7.9, OpenAnolis8.8 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. No new dpdk issue is found.
> * Cryptodev: 
>   *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
>     - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
>   *Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance/Cryptodev Latency, etc.
>     - All test done. No new dpdk issue is found.
> 
> Regards,
> Xu, Hailin


Thanks for the report Hailin. I will add to the release notes,

Kevin.