DPDK Release Candidate 24.11-rc3 Testing Report

[Wael Abualrub <waela@nvidia.com>]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2024 4:13 AM
> To: announce@dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 24.11-rc3
> 
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v24.11-rc3
> 
> There are 192 new patches in this snapshot.
> Hopefully almost everything expected should be in.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_24_11.html
> 
> Highlights of 24.11-rc3:
> 	- Realtek r8169 net driver
> 	- ZTE gdtc raw driver
> 
> As usual, you can report any issue on https://bugs.dpdk.org
> 
> Only documentation and critical bug fixes should be accepted at this stage.
> 
> There are only 10 days remaining before the end of the month.
> DPDK 24.11-rc4 should be the last release candidate (in one week).
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 

The following is the testing report for 24.11-rc3.

Note: all tests are passed, and no critical issues were found.

The following is a list of tests that we ran on NVIDIA hardware 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:
	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#supported-hardware-offloads
- RSS testing.
- VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion tests.
- Checksum and TSO tests.
- ptype reporting.
- link status interrupt using the example application link_status_interrupt tests.
- Interrupt mode using l3fwd-power example application tests.
- Multi process testing using multi process example applications.
- Hardware LRO tests. 
- Regex tests.
- Buffer Split.
- Tx scheduling.

Kindest Regards,
Wael Abualrub