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Subject: 20.11.2 patches review and test

Hi all,

Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.2.

The planned date for the final release is 6th 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 release candidate tarball can be found at:

    https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v20.11.2-rc2

These patches are located at branch 20.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
    https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/

Thanks.

Xueming Li [off-list ref]

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
  - gre
  - gre_key
    gtp
  - icmp
  - icmp6
  - ipv4
  - ipv6
  - ipv6_ext
  - ipv6_frag_ext
  - meta
  - mpls
  - nvgre
  - tcp
  - udp
  - vlan
  - vxlan
  - vxlan-gpe
  Actions:
  - age (shared and non-shared)
  - count
  - dec_tcp_ack
  - dec_tcp_seq
  - dec_ttl
  - drop
  - flag
  - inc_tcp_ack
  - inc_tcp_seq
  - jump
  - mark
  - meter
  - of_pop_vlan
  - of_push_vlan
  - of_set_vlan_pcp
  - of_set_vlan_vid
  - queue
  - raw_decap
  - raw_encap
  - rss (shared and non-shared)
  - set_ipv4_dscp
  - set_ipv4_dst
  - set_ipv4_src
  - set_ipv6_dscp
  - set_ipv6_dst
  - set_ipv6_src
  - set_mac_dst
  - set_mac_src
  - set_meta
  - set_tag
  - set_tp_dst
  - set_tp_src
  - set_ttl
  - vxlan_decap
  - vxlan_encap

- 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.
- Hardware LRO 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

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.
- 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 the clang build is failing in Fedora 35 due to the following issue:
- https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745

We don't see any other critical issues blocking this release.

Thanks,
Ali