RE: 22.11.11 patches review and test

[Maayan Kashani <mkashani@nvidia.com>]

++@Shani Peretz
++@Kevin Traynor

Please see below,

Regards,
Maayan Kashani

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Minggang(Gavin) Li <gavinl@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 December 2025 5:09
> To: Maayan Kashani <mkashani@nvidia.com>; Luca Boccassi
> <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>; Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org; dev@dpdk.org; John McNamara
> <john.mcnamara@intel.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>;
> NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas@monjalon.net>;
> Salaheddin Badawi <sbadawi@nvidia.com>; Wael Abualrub
> <waela@nvidia.com>
> Subject: RE: 22.11.11 patches review and test
> 
> Hi Luca,
> 
> The issue(https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851) was introduced by
> cherry-picking some of the 3 related commits of refactoring multicast
> handling of PF in NV pmd. I don't understand why it/they were chosen
> because they included behavior change in PF. They should not be backported
> to stable ones from my point of view.
> 
> The commit(s) polluted 22.11, 23.11 and 24.11 so far. Please revert below
> commits to fix the issue.
> 
> 24.11
> ddcaa1671f net/mlx5: fix multicast
> adce6d130b net/mlx5: align PF and VF/SF MAC address handling
> 
> 23.11
> c070455e8b net/mlx5: align PF and VF/SF MAC address handling
> 
> 22.11
> 58a6421bc3 net/mlx5: fix multicast
> ed3411217b net/mlx5: align PF and VF/SF MAC address handling
> 
> Regards.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Maayan Kashani <mkashani@nvidia.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2025 10:09 PM
> > To: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>; Ali Alnubani
> > <alialnu@nvidia.com>; Minggang(Gavin) Li <gavinl@nvidia.com>
> > Cc: stable@dpdk.org; dev@dpdk.org; John McNamara
> > <john.mcnamara@intel.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>;
> NBU-
> > Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas@monjalon.net>;
> Salaheddin
> > Badawi <sbadawi@nvidia.com>; Wael Abualrub <waela@nvidia.com>
> > Subject: RE: 22.11.11 patches review and test
> >
> > ++@Minggang(Gavin) Li
> >
> > Regards,
> > Maayan Kashani
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, 22 December 2025 13:27
> > > To: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>
> > > Cc: stable@dpdk.org; dev@dpdk.org; John McNamara
> > > <john.mcnamara@intel.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>;
> > > NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas@monjalon.net>;
> > > Salaheddin Badawi <sbadawi@nvidia.com>; Wael Abualrub
> > > <waela@nvidia.com>
> > > Subject: Re: 22.11.11 patches review and test
> > >
> > > External email: Use caution opening links or attachments
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 at 19:06, Luca Boccassi
> > > <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 at 18:58, Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>
> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 12/18/25 8:27 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 at 18:24, Ali Alnubani
> > > > > > <alialnu@nvidia.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > > >> On 12/4/25 2:56 AM, luca.boccassi@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >>> Hi all,
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 22.11.11.
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> The planned date for the final release is December 18th.
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> 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=v22.11.11-rc1
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> These patches are located at branch 22.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> > > > > >>>       https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> Thanks.
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> Luca Boccassi
> > > > > >> Hello,
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on
> > > v22.11.11-rc1:
> > > > > >> - 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
> > > > > >> (https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#supported-hardwar
> > > > > >> e-
> > > > > >> of
> > > > > >> floads)
> > > > > >> - 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.
> > > > > >> - Buffer Split tests.
> > > > > >> - Tx scheduling tests.
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Functional tests ran on ConnectX-6 Dx (OS: Ubuntu 22.04 | Driver:
> > > > > >> MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-7.0.6.1 | Firmware: 22.35.8002).
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> An engineer from my team reported 2 issues:
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851
> > > > > >> Did not reproduce in 22.11.10, git-bisect points to
> > > > > >> 58a6421bc396
> > > > > >> ("net/mlx5: fix multicast")..
> > > > > > Thanks, are you planning to send a fix, or should I just
> > > > > > revert that
> > > commit?
> > > > >
> > > > > I reached out to the engineer who authored the patch and am
> > > > > waiting for their response. I may not be able to get back to you
> > > > > with an answer today, though.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you, no problem it can wait a while
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Any update?
> > >
> > > Thanks