Testing report for DPDK release candidate 24.03-rc3

[Wael Abualrub <waela@nvidia.com>]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2024 5:46 AM
> To: announce@dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 24.03-rc3
>
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
>       https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v24.03-rc3
>
> There are 153 new patches in this snapshot.
>
> Release notes:
>       https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_24_03.html
>
> As usual, you can report any issue on https://bugs.dpdk.org/
>
> Only documentation and bug fixes should be accepted at this stage.
>
> DPDK 24.03-rc4 should be the last release candidate.
> The final release should be done on 27th if no surprise.
>
> Thank you everyone
>

The following is the testing report for 24.03-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:
 See: 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