> -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Traynor <ktray...@redhat.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 12:53 PM > To: Ali Alnubani <alia...@mellanox.com>; sta...@dpdk.org > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <abhishek.mara...@microsoft.com>; > Akhil Goyal <akhil.go...@nxp.com>; benjamin.wal...@intel.com; David > Christensen <d...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Hemant Agrawal > <hemant.agra...@nxp.com>; Ian Stokes <ian.sto...@intel.com>; Jerin > Jacob <jer...@marvell.com>; John McNamara <john.mcnam...@intel.com>; > Ju-Hyoung Lee <juh...@microsoft.com>; Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>; > Pei Zhang <pezh...@redhat.com>; pingx...@intel.com; > qian.q...@intel.com; Raslan Darawsheh <rasl...@mellanox.com>; Thomas > Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>; yuan.p...@intel.com; > zhaoyan.c...@intel.com > Subject: Re: 18.11.9 (LTS) patches review and test > > On 30/06/2020 09:54, Ali Alnubani wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Hi Ali, > > Thanks for testing. > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Kevin Traynor <ktray...@redhat.com> > >> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 3:53 PM > >> To: sta...@dpdk.org > >> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe > <abhishek.mara...@microsoft.com>; > >> Akhil Goyal <akhil.go...@nxp.com>; Ali Alnubani > >> <alia...@mellanox.com>; benjamin.wal...@intel.com; David Christensen > >> <d...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Hemant Agrawal > <hemant.agra...@nxp.com>; > >> Ian Stokes <ian.sto...@intel.com>; Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.com>; > >> John McNamara <john.mcnam...@intel.com>; Ju-Hyoung Lee > >> <juh...@microsoft.com>; Kevin Traynor <ktray...@redhat.com>; Luca > >> Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>; Pei Zhang <pezh...@redhat.com>; > >> pingx...@intel.com; qian.q...@intel.com; Raslan Darawsheh > >> <rasl...@mellanox.com>; Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>; > >> yuan.p...@intel.com; zhaoyan.c...@intel.com > >> Subject: 18.11.9 (LTS) patches review and test > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 18.11.9. > >> > >> The planned date for the final release is 3rd July. > >> > >> 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. > >> > > > > We ran the following tests on Mellanox hardware for this version: > > - Basic functionality: > > Send and receive multiple types of traffic. > > - testpmd xstats counter tests. > > - testpmd timestamp tests. > > - Changing/checking link status through testpmd. > > - RTE flow and flow_director tests: > > Items: eth / vlan / ipv4 / ipv6 / tcp / udp / gre > > Actions: drop / queue / rss / mark / flag > > - Some RSS tests. > > - VLAN stripping and insertion tests. > > - Checksum and TSO tests. > > - ptype tests. > > - l3fwd-power example application tests. > > - Multi-process example applications tests. > > > > Testing matrix: > > - NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: > > MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.0-2.1.8.0 / Firmware: 14.27.1016 > > - NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.0-2.1.8.0 > > / Firmware: 16.27.2008 > > > > We found 2 issues: > > - Failure to restart ports with kernels newer than 5.6 (call to mmap failed > > on > UAR for txq). > > - Applications fail to start with CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_DEBUG enabled > (mlx5_ifindex: Assertion `priv->if_index' failed). > > Are these regressions? i.e. does 18.11.8 fail in the same way in the same > testbed
The first issue reproduces in previous releases as well, but only with kernels newer than 5.6. The second one seems to have started reproducing in v18.11.7, but I only noticed it while testing this release. > > > We are discussing these issues internally, and we see no other regressions > blocking the release. > > > > ok, please let me know the outcome and if any patches need to be > added/removed to resolve these issues. Will do. > > thanks, > Kevin. > > > Regards, > > Ali > > Thanks, Ali