RE: 20.11.4 patches review and test

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Subject: 20.11.4 patches review and test

Hi all,

Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.4.

The planned date for the final release is 31th December.

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=v20.11.4-rc1

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

Thanks.

Xueming Li [off-list ref]

Update the test status for Intel part. Till now dpdk20.11.4-rc1 test execution rate is 80%. Currently, find three bugs, two bugs have fix now.
# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* Build or compile:  
	*Build: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang/ICC version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu20.04, Fedora34, RHEL8.4, etc.
		- All test done.
		- Two bugs are found in 20.11.4-rc1.
			- dpdk-20.11.4]kernel/linux/kni/rte_kni.ko build failed on OpenSuse15.3 with gcc7.5.0&clang11.0.1
				- fix link: http://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/20211208103410.835542-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com/T/#u , verify passed by Intel
			- https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=894  [dpdk-20.11.4] lib/librte_eal.a.p/librte_eal_common_rte_random.c.obj build failed on WIN10 with clang8.0.0
				- fix link: http://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/20211207141644.369624-1-dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com/T/#u, verify passed by Intel
	* PF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. 
		- All test done. No new issue is found. 
	* VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.		
		- All test done. No new issue is found. 	
	* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Share code update/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
		- Execution rate is 80%. No new issue is found.
	* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, RFC2544 Zero packet loss performance test, etc.
		- Execution rate is 50%. No big performance drop.
	* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
		- All passed.			
# Basic cryptodev and virtio testing
	* Virtio: both function and performance test are covered. Such as PVP/Virtio_loopback/virtio-user loopback/virtio-net VM2VM perf testing/VMAWARE ESXI 7.0u3, etc.
		- Execution rate is 80%. No new issue is found.
	* Cryptodev: 
		*Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
			- All test done.
			- One new bug about "[dpdk-LTS-20.11.4-rc1] cryptodev_qat_asym_autotest is failing" is found, Intel dev is under investigating.
				bad commit id is commit 2f2c2b5b7e7ae4942b4b3686bce2eb856fee447d
				Author: Przemyslaw Zegan [off-list ref]
				Date: Wed Nov 3 15:08:23 2021 +0000
				common/qat: fix queue pairs number
		*Performance test: test scenarios including Thoughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
			- All test done.