RE: [PATCH 0/4] fix issues with using AVX-512 drivers on 32-bit

2024-09-30 Thread Stokes, Ian
> The AVX-512 copy code in multiple drivers was incorrect for 32-bit as it > assumed that each pointer was always 8B in size. > > Bruce Richardson (4): > net/i40e: fix AVX-512 pointer copy on 32-bit > net/ice: fix AVX-512 pointer copy on 32-bit > net/iavf: fix AVX-512 pointer copy on 32-bit

RE: [PATCH 2/4] net/ice: fix AVX-512 pointer copy on 32-bit

2024-09-30 Thread Stokes, Ian
> The size of a pointer on 32-bit is only 4 rather than 8 bytes, so > copying 32 pointers only requires half the number of AVX-512 load store > operations. > > Fixes: a4e480de268e ("net/ice: optimize Tx by using AVX512") > Cc: sta...@dpdk.org > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson > --- > drivers/

RE: [PATCH 1/4] net/i40e: fix AVX-512 pointer copy on 32-bit

2024-09-30 Thread Stokes, Ian
> The size of a pointer on 32-bit is only 4 rather than 8 bytes, so > copying 32 pointers only requires half the number of AVX-512 load store > operations. > > Fixes: 5171b4ee6b6b ("net/i40e: optimize Tx by using AVX512") > Cc: sta...@dpdk.org > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson > --- > drivers

RE: [PATCH] test: fix option block

2024-07-10 Thread Stokes, Ian
> -Original Message- > From: Ye, MingjinX > Sent: Friday, July 5, 2024 2:39 AM > To: Stokes, Ian ; dev@dpdk.org > Subject: RE: [PATCH] test: fix option block > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Stokes, Ian > > Sent: Thursday,

RE: [PATCH] test: fix option block

2024-07-04 Thread Stokes, Ian
> > -Original Message- > > From: Stokes, Ian > > Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2024 10:35 PM > > To: Ye, MingjinX ; dev@dpdk.org > > Subject: [PATCH] test: fix option block > > > > > > The options allow (-a) and block (-b) cannot be used at the s

[PATCH] test: fix option block

2024-07-03 Thread Stokes, Ian
> > The options allow (-a) and block (-b) cannot be used at the same time. > > Therefore, allow (-a) will not be added when block (-b) is present. > > > > Fixes: b3ce7891ad38 ("test: fix probing in secondary process") > > Cc: sta...@dpdk.org > > > > Signed-off-by: Mingjin Ye Hi Mingjin, in genera

RE: [PATCH] net/ice: fix use of ice_bitmap_t in promisc functions

2024-07-02 Thread Stokes, Ian
> Promisc functions were modified to use ice_bitmap_t. > However use of ice_bitmap_t requires specific helper > functions to ensure correctness. > > Fix this by adding correct calls to declare, zero and set > ice_bitmap_t within the promisc functions. > > Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes Just to clari

RE: 20.11.6 patches review and test

2022-08-29 Thread Stokes, Ian
> Hi all, > > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.6. > > The planned date for the final release is August 29th. > > 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

RE: 21.11.2 patches review and test

2022-08-29 Thread Stokes, Ian
> Hi all, > > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.2. > > The planned date for the final release is August 29th. > > 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

OVS DPDK DMA-Dev library/Design Discussion

2022-03-24 Thread Stokes, Ian
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OVS DPDK DMA-Dev library/Design Discussion

2022-03-15 Thread Stokes, Ian
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RE: OVS DPDK DSA Architecture/Design Discussion

2022-03-15 Thread Stokes, Ian
> 15/03/2022 12:14, Stokes, Ian: > > > 15/03/2022 11:27, Stokes, Ian: > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > We'd like to put a public meeting in place for the stakeholders > > > > of DPDK and OVS to discuss the next steps and de

OVS DPDK DMA-Dev library/Design Discussion

2022-03-15 Thread Stokes, Ian
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OVS DPDK DMA-Dev library/Design Discussion

2022-03-15 Thread Stokes, Ian
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RE: OVS DPDK DSA Architecture/Design Discussion

2022-03-15 Thread Stokes, Ian
> 15/03/2022 11:27, Stokes, Ian: > > Hi All, > > > > We'd like to put a public meeting in place for the stakeholders > > of DPDK and OVS to discuss the next steps and design of > > the DSA library along with its integration in OVS. > > There is no D

OVS DPDK DSA Architecture/Design Discussion

2022-03-15 Thread Stokes, Ian
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RE: release candidate 21.11-rc4

2021-11-25 Thread Stokes, Ian
> Hi all, > > A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing: > https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v21.11-rc4 > > There are 46 new patches in this snapshot, for last critical fixes and > some documentation updates. > > Release notes: > https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/rele

Re: [dpdk-dev] 19.11.9 patches review and test

2021-06-17 Thread Stokes, Ian
> 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 re

Re: [dpdk-dev] [ovs-dev] ovs-vswitchd with DPDK crashed when guest VM restarts network service

2020-11-19 Thread Stokes, Ian
> Hi, >We are seeing a ovs-vswitchd service crash with segfault in the > librte_vhost library when a DPDK application within a guest VM is stopped. > >We are using OVS 2.11.1 on CentOS 7.6 (3.10.0-1062 Linux > kernel) with > DPDK 18.11.2. Hi, Is there a reason yo

Re: [dpdk-dev] 18.11.10 (LTS) patches review and test

2020-09-11 Thread Stokes, Ian
> Hi all, > > Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 18.11.10. > > The planned date for the final release is 21 September. > > 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

Re: [dpdk-dev] 19.11.4 patches review and test

2020-09-01 Thread Stokes, Ian
s released, but it would be nice to >support it before then if possible. Regards Ian > > > -Original Message- > > From: Bruce Richardson > > Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 6:18 PM > > To: Christian Ehrhardt > > Cc: Luca Boccassi ; sta...@dpdk.org

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce Vhost dequeue zero-copy removal

2020-08-06 Thread Stokes, Ian
> Vhost-user dequeue zero-copy support will be removed in 20.11. The only > known user is OVS where the feature is still experimental, and has not > received > any update for several years. This feature faces reliability issues and is > often > conflicting with new features being implemented. >

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] improve DPDK static builds with meson

2020-07-02 Thread Stokes, Ian
> 30/06/2020 18:37, Stokes, Ian: > > > This series allows OVS to consume the DPDK libraries appropriately > > > (static and > > > shared) and simplifies the build. > > > When building OVS with DPDK, without this patch, the linker would > > > always

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] improve DPDK static builds with meson

2020-06-30 Thread Stokes, Ian
> > -Original Message- > > From: dev On Behalf Of Bruce Richardson > > Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 7:24 PM > > To: dev@dpdk.org > > Cc: tho...@monjalon.net; bl...@debian.org; david.march...@redhat.com; > > ktray...@redhat.com; Richardson, Bruce > > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] improve

Re: [dpdk-dev] 18.11.9 (LTS) patches review and test

2020-06-30 Thread Stokes, Ian
> -Original Message- > From: Kevin Traynor > Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 5:21 PM > To: Govindharajan, Hariprasad ; > sta...@dpdk.org; Stokes, Ian ; Loftus, Ciara > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe ; > Akhil Goyal ; Ali Alnubani ; > Walker, Benjamin ; D

Re: [dpdk-dev] 18.11.7 (LTS) patches review and test

2020-04-14 Thread Stokes, Ian
> -Original Message- > From: Kevin Traynor > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 7:34 PM > To: sta...@dpdk.org > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe ; > Akhil Goyal ; Ali Alnubani ; > Walker, Benjamin ; David Christensen > ; Hemant Agrawal ; > Stokes, Ian ; Jerin Ja

Re: [dpdk-dev] 17.11.10 (LTS) patches review and test

2020-01-30 Thread Stokes, Ian
On 1/30/2020 10:08 AM, Luca Boccassi wrote: On Mon, 2020-01-13 at 12:47 +, Luca Boccassi wrote: Hi all, Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 17.11.10. This will be the last 17.11 release. The planned date for the final release is the 30th of January. Please help with test

Re: [dpdk-dev] 18.11.6 (LTS) patches review and test

2020-01-30 Thread Stokes, Ian
On 1/14/2020 2:40 PM, Kevin Traynor wrote: Hi all, Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 18.11.6. The planned date for the final release is 31st January. Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report any issues/results with reply-all to this mail. For the

Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 19.11-rc4

2019-11-27 Thread Stokes, Ian
On 11/26/2019 11:56 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing: https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v19.11-rc4 93 patches were integrated. The release notes so far: http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.html It should be completed w

Re: [dpdk-dev] 18.11.3 (LTS) patches review and test

2019-10-10 Thread Stokes, Ian
On 9/13/2019 5:31 PM, Kevin Traynor wrote: Hi all, Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 18.11.3. The planned date for the final release is 9th October. Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report any issues/results in reply to this mail. For the final

Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] ethdev: add min/max MTU to device info

2018-11-22 Thread Stokes, Ian
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 09:29:32 +0300 > Andrew Rybchenko wrote: > > > On 09/05/2018 07:41 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > This addresses the usability issue raised by OVS at DPDK Userspace > > > summit. It adds general min/max mtu into device info. For > > > compatiablity, and to save space, it

Re: [dpdk-dev] DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_SCATTER for ixgbe and igb devices

2018-04-16 Thread Stokes, Ian
> On 4/13/2018 3:52 PM, Stokes, Ian wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Currently it's the case that for some NICs (e.g. igb driver or ixgbe > driver based), scatter_rx needs to be enabled explicitly in the case where > it was not configured before. > > > > A pa

[dpdk-dev] DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_SCATTER for ixgbe and igb devices

2018-04-13 Thread Stokes, Ian
Hi all, Currently it's the case that for some NICs (e.g. igb driver or ixgbe driver based), scatter_rx needs to be enabled explicitly in the case where it was not configured before. A patch submitted for ovs-dpdk proposes to check that the DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_SCATTER flag is present in rte_ethdev_i

Re: [dpdk-dev] [ovs-dev] [PATCH] netdev-dpdk: defer MTU set after interface start

2017-12-13 Thread Stokes, Ian
> > The issue only arises with the qede PMD and 67fe6d635193 > > ("netdev-dpdk: use rte_eth_dev_set_mtu.") > > I had some more time to look at this today but this patch will break OVS DPDK > for existing supported DPDK ports during testing. > > I tested with an XL710 and the MTU will fail to appl

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/1] cryptodev: fix build with Ofast.

2017-10-17 Thread Stokes, Ian
> > -Original Message- > > From: Stokes, Ian > > Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 3:15 PM > > To: dev@dpdk.org > > Cc: De Lara Guarch, Pablo ; Stokes, > > Ian > > Subject: [PATCH v2 1/1] cryptodev: fix build with Ofast. > > >

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/1] rte_crypto.h: Fix compilation issue with Ofast.

2017-10-17 Thread Stokes, Ian
. > > Hi Ian, > > > -Original Message- > > From: Stokes, Ian > > Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 12:04 PM > > To: dev@dpdk.org > > Cc: De Lara Guarch, Pablo ; Stokes, > > Ian > > Subject: [PATCH v1 1/1] rte_crypto.h: Fix compilati

[dpdk-dev] Building DPDK Libraries with Libtool

2014-07-03 Thread Stokes, Ian
Hi, I have been using DPDK with Openvswitch. The latest release of Openvswitch has started to use Libtools to build it's own internal libraries. Previous to this I built DPDK using DPDKs Makefiles and linked against the required DPDK libraries in the Openvswitch Makefiles. However because of th