> -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Traynor <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 12:53 PM > To: Ali Alnubani <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Cc: [email protected]; Abhishek Marathe <[email protected]>; > Akhil Goyal <[email protected]>; [email protected]; David > Christensen <[email protected]>; Hemant Agrawal > <[email protected]>; Ian Stokes <[email protected]>; Jerin > Jacob <[email protected]>; John McNamara <[email protected]>; > Ju-Hyoung Lee <[email protected]>; Luca Boccassi <[email protected]>; > Pei Zhang <[email protected]>; [email protected]; > [email protected]; Raslan Darawsheh <[email protected]>; Thomas > Monjalon <[email protected]>; [email protected]; > [email protected] > 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 <[email protected]> > >> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 3:53 PM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Cc: [email protected]; Abhishek Marathe > <[email protected]>; > >> Akhil Goyal <[email protected]>; Ali Alnubani > >> <[email protected]>; [email protected]; David Christensen > >> <[email protected]>; Hemant Agrawal > <[email protected]>; > >> Ian Stokes <[email protected]>; Jerin Jacob <[email protected]>; > >> John McNamara <[email protected]>; Ju-Hyoung Lee > >> <[email protected]>; Kevin Traynor <[email protected]>; Luca > >> Boccassi <[email protected]>; Pei Zhang <[email protected]>; > >> [email protected]; [email protected]; Raslan Darawsheh > >> <[email protected]>; Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>; > >> [email protected]; [email protected] > >> 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
