Hi Christian, Sorry for the delay. > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Ehrhardt <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, July 2, 2021 10:42 AM > To: Ali Alnubani <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Abhishek Marathe > <[email protected]>; Akhil Goyal <[email protected]>; > [email protected]; David Christensen <[email protected]>; > [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]>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon > <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: 19.11.9 patches review and test > > On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 5:50 PM Ali Alnubani <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Christian Ehrhardt <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2021 9:38 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Cc: [email protected]; Abhishek Marathe > <[email protected]>; > > > Akhil Goyal <[email protected]>; Ali Alnubani > > > <[email protected]>; [email protected]; David Christensen > > > <[email protected]>; [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]>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon > > > <[email protected]>; [email protected]; > [email protected] > > > Subject: 19.11.9 patches review and test > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.9. > > > > > > The planned date for the final release is 2nd 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. > > > > > > A renewed release candidate tarball can be found at: > > > > > > https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v19.11.9-rc3 > > > > > > These patches are located at branch 19.11 of dpdk-stable repo: > > > https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/ > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Christian Ehrhardt <[email protected]> > > > > > > > The following covers the functional tests that we ran on Mellanox > hardware for this release: > > - 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: > > Items: eth / vlan / ipv4 / ipv6 / tcp / udp / icmp / gre / nvgre / vxlan > > / ip in > ip / mplsoudp / mplsogre > > Actions: drop / queue / rss / mark / flag / jump / count / raw_encap > > / raw_decap / vxlan_encap / vxlan_decap / NAT / dec_ttl > > - Some 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. > > > > Functional tests ran on: > > - NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: > > MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1 / Firmware: 14.30.1004 > > - NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Driver: > > MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1 / Firmware: 16.30.1004 > > > > We discovered 2 new issues due to environment changes: > > - can't create some rules with count action, fixed by > https://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/20210621145105.963179-1- > [email protected]/T/#u. > > As discussed in the release meeting yesterday, that is a regression and needs > to be added. > While I feel slightly tired of new respins this is what we do the validation > for. > So thanks you (all!) for the testing! > > I have now applied the referred fix to 19.11.9
Thank you. > > FYI: I see this came up ~5 days into the -rc3 testing, but I missed it so I > checked why. > It was breaking the usual subject syntax (double colon) and not flagged for > 19.11.9 (as requested in backport mails and the common > style) in subject or body. > > > - rte_flow hit counter doesn't increment, still discussing this internally. > > For this issue please tell me until Monday what you expect. > Does it look close to being resolved (then I'll hold -rc4 back a bit > longer) or should I go on planning to release 19.11.9 without it (then I'd > tag - > rc4 on Monday). We are checking if we can resolve this in the next few hours. Hope that's ok with you. > > Generally on -rc4 I think it would be sufficient if you would re-run your > testing as your tests cover the only two things we have touched in -rc4 (clang > 12 and the flow issue). > I'm not "against" more tests, just saying that those should be sufficient in > case no others come back then. > Because other than the issues reported in here all other tests already came > back fully green for -rc3. > > FYI the usual non-official WIP repo on > https://github.com/cpaelzer/dpdk-stable-queue/commits/19.11 holds what > 19.11.9-rc4 would become if you want to pre-test anything. > > > Compilation tests with multiple configurations in the following OS/driver > combinations are also passing: > > - Ubuntu 20.04.2 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1. > > - Ubuntu 20.04.2 with rdma-core master (a66e2a5). > > - Ubuntu 20.04.2 with rdma-core v28.0. > > - Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core v17.1. > > - Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core master (a66e2a5) (i386). > > - Ubuntu 16.04.7 with rdma-core v22.7. > > - Fedora 34 with rdma-core v35.0 (only with gcc). > > - Fedora 35 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v35.0 (only with gcc). > > - CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (a66e2a5). > > - CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1. > > - CentOS 8 8.3.2011 with rdma-core master (7f2d460). > > - OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 with rdma-core v31.0. > > > > Note that clang builds are failing in Fedora 34 and 35 due to the following > issues: > > - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745 > > This is still totally unknown and not specific to 19.11 series. > I guess this clang issue has to wait for the next stable release then. > > > - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733 > > We've identified the patch that needs to be backported for this one. > I have done so and built across all platforms - LGTM. > If your tests could also confirm this once we have -rc4 tagged that would be > great. Sure, I'll retest once rc4 is out. > > > We don't see any other critical issues blocking this release. > > > > Thanks, > > Ali > > > > -- > Christian Ehrhardt > Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server > Canonical Ltd Thanks again Christian, Ali
