Re: 24.11.3 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>]

On 13/08/2025 21:25, Ali Alnubani wrote:
> On 7/24/25 7:15 PM, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 24.11.3.
>>
>> The planned date for the final release is 12th August 2025.
>>
>> 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=v24.11.3-rc1
>>
>> These patches are located at branch 24.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>>      https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> ---
> 
> Hello Kevin, apologies for the delay,
> 

Hi Ali,

No problem, thanks for taking the time to run the validation.

> We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on v24.11.3-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-hardware-offloads)
> - 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:
> - NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 22.04 / Driver: 
> MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.10-3.2.5.0 / Firmware: 22.43.3608
> - NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 22.04 / Driver: 
> MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.10-3.2.5.0 / Firmware: 28.43.3608
> - DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 2.9.3 / Firmware: 24.43.3608
> 
> Additionally, we ran build tests with multiple configurations on the 
> following OS/driver combinations (all passed):
> - Debian 12 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.10-3.2.5.0.
> - Ubuntu 22.04 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.10-3.2.5.0.
> - Ubuntu 22.04 with rdma-core master (091ddb5).
> - Ubuntu 24.04 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.10-3.2.5.0.
> - Ubuntu 24.04 with rdma-core v50.0.
> - Fedora 42 with rdma-core v55.0.
> - Fedora 43 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v58.0.
> - OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 with rdma-core v49.1.
> - Windows Server 2022 with Clang 18.1.8.
> 
> The following patch addresses an ASan issue in testpmd:
> https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20250730113243.197386-1-mkashani@nvidia.com/
> 

ok, that one is not merged in dpdk main branch or gone through release
validation yet, so will hold off applying into stable branch for now.

> We are currently investigating additional functional test failures but 
> have not yet determined if these issues are new or present in previous 
> releases (and appeared due to environment changes). Will update as soon 
> as possible.
> 

Sure, no problem.

thanks,
Kevin.

> Regards,
> Ali
>