22.11.4 patches review and test

[Xueming(Steven) Li]

Hi Ali,

Thanks for the testing and report!

Regards,
Xueming

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>
> Sent: 1/3/2024 22:41
> To: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.com>;
> benjamin.walker at intel.com; David Christensen <drc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>;
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> Subject: RE: 22.11.4 patches review and test
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2023 9:19 AM
> > To: stable at dpdk.org
> > Cc: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>; dev at dpdk.org; Abhishek
> > Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.com>; Ali Alnubani
> > <alialnu at nvidia.com>; benjamin.walker at intel.com; David Christensen
> > <drc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>; Ian
> > Stokes <ian.stokes at intel.com>; Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>; John
> > McNamara <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>;
> > qian.q.xu at intel.com; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>; NBU-
> > Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas at monjalon.net>; Yanghang Liu
> > <yanghliu at redhat.com>; yuan.peng at intel.com; zhaoyan.chen at intel.com
> > Subject: 22.11.4 patches review and test
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 22.11.4.
> >
> > The planned date for the final release is 5th January.
> >
> > 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=v22.11.4-rc3
> >
> > These patches are located at branch 22.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on v22.11.4-rc3:
> - 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 (https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#supported-
> hardware-offloads)
> - 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-23.10-
> 1.1.9.0 / Firmware: 22.39.2048
> - NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.10-
> 1.1.9.0 / Firmware: 28.39.2048
> - DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 2.5.0 / Firmware: 24.39.2048
> 
> Additionally, we ran build tests with multiple configurations on the following
> OS/driver combinations (all passed):
> - Ubuntu 20.04.6 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.10-1.1.9.0.
> - Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core master (9016f34).
> - Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core v28.0.
> - Fedora 38 with rdma-core v44.0.
> - Fedora 40 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v48.0.
> - OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 with rdma-core v42.0.
> - Windows Server 2019 with Clang 16.0.6.
> 
> We don't see new issues caused by the changes in this release.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ali