RE: 23.11.4 patches review and test

["Xu, HailinX" <hailinx.xu@intel.com>]

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> From: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2025 10:19 PM
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> Subject: 23.11.4 patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 23.11.4.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is 25th April.
> 
> 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=v23.11.4-rc4
> 
> These patches are located at branch 23.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> 
> ---
Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk23.11.4-rc4 all validation test done. no new issue is found.

known issues: fix patch has been merged into main, but they not merged 23.11 LTS, so this issue still exists in 23.11.4-rc4
  1. vm2vm_virtio_pmd/vm2vm_vhost_user_virtio95_pmd_with_mergeable_path_with_payload_valid_check: start dpdk-pdump in VM with virtio-0.95 protocol failed
    - has fix patches: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=30356&archive=both&state=*

* Build & CFLAG compile: cover the build test with latest GCC/Clang version on the following OS(all passed)
  - Ubuntu24.10/Ubuntu24.04.1
  - RHEL9.4/RHEL9.5/RHEL10 beta
  - Fedora41
  - FreeBSD14.2
  - SUSE15.6
  - OpenAnolis8.9
  - AzureLinux3.0

* Function tests: All test done and passed.
  - i40E-(XXV710, X722) PF/VF: test scenarios including basic/RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/mac_filter/VLAN/VXLAN/RSS, etc. 
  - IXGBE-(82599) PF/VF: test scenarios including basic/RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/mac_filter/VLAN/VXLAN/RSS, etc. 
  - ICE-(E810, E2100) PF/VF: test scenarios including basic/Switch/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
  - IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
  - Virtio: both function and performance test are covered. Such as PVP/Virtio_loopback/virtio-user loopback/virtio-net VM2VM perf testing/VMAWARE ESXI 8.0, etc.
  - Cryptodev: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
  - DLB: test scenarios including DLB2.0 and DLB2.5
  - Other: test scenarios including AF_XDP, Power, CBDMA, DSA

* Performance test: All test done and passed
  - Thoughput Performance
  - Cryptodev Latency
  - PF/VF NIC single core
  - XXV710/E810 NIC Performance


Regards,
Xu, Hailin