RE: 21.11.5 patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>]

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> Subject: 21.11.5 patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.5.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is 22nd August.
> 
> 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.
> 

Hello,

We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on 21.11.5-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.
- 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.
- Regex application tests.
- Buffer Split tests.
- Tx scheduling tests.

Functional tests ran on:
- NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.07-0.5.0.0 / Firmware: 22.38.1002
- NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.07-0.5.0.0 / Firmware: 28.38.1002
- DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 2.2.0 / Firmware: 24.38.1002


Build tests (all passed):
- Ubuntu 22.04.2 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.07-0.5.0.0.
- Ubuntu 20.04.6 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.04-1.1.3.0.
- Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core master (aba30bd).
- Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core v28.0.
- Ubuntu 18.04.6 with rdma-core master (aba30bd) (i386).
- Fedora 38 with rdma-core v44.0.
- Fedora 39 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v46.0.
- OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 with rdma-core v42.0.
- Windows Server 2019 with Clang 11.0.0.

We're investigating some internal test failures due to changes in environment, but we don't see new issues introduced by new changes in this rc yet, so we're ok to release.

Thanks,
Ali