On 14/01/2021 15:11, Ali Alnubani wrote:

Hi,

Hi Ali,

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Subject: [dpdk-stable] 18.11.11 (LTS) patches review and test

Hi all,

Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 18.11.11.

The planned date for the final release is 19th January.

Note, this is the last planned release of 18.11 LTS, and it will be unmaintained
after this release, so I encourage anyone who is using
18.11 LTS to test.

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.

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 tests.
- testpmd timestamp tests.
- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
- RTE flow and flow_director tests.
- Some RSS tests.
- VLAN stripping and insertion tests.
- Checksum and TSO tests.
- ptype tests.
- l3fwd-power example application tests.
- Multi-process example applications tests.

Functional tests ran on:
- NIC: ConnectX-4 Lx / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-1.0.4.0 / Firmware: 14.29.1016
- NIC: ConnectX-5 / OS: RHEL7.4 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-1.0.4.0 / Firmware: 16.29.1016

Thanks for your testing.

We don't see any issues introduced by the new changes in this release, however, we found the following issues while testing due to environment changes:
- Bug 615 - testpmd gets stuck when deleting an FDIR flow - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615 - Won't fix.
- Bug 616 - [mlx5] packet does not match a corresponding rte_flow rule due to inner ether_type spec validation - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616 - Won't fix.
- Bug 617 - [mlx5] packet does not match a corresponding rte_flow rule due to vxlan vni spec validation - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617 - Won't fix.

We can put these in the known issues section of the release notes.

- Bug 618 - [mlx5] secondary process fails to start - https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618 - We are still looking into this.

Ok, I'll keep an eye on the Bz and please add me on Cc: if there are
patches to fix it and I can run them through the 18.11 build checks etc.

thanks,
Kevin.

Regards,
Ali