Re: 22.11.11 patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>]

On 12/18/25 8:27 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 at 18:24, Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com> wrote:
>> On 12/4/25 2:56 AM, luca.boccassi@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 22.11.11.
>>>
>>> The planned date for the final release is December 18th.
>>>
>>> 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=v22.11.11-rc1
>>>
>>> These patches are located at branch 22.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>>>       https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Luca Boccassi
>> Hello,
>>
>> We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on v22.11.11-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 ConnectX-6 Dx (OS: Ubuntu 22.04 | Driver:
>> MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.8-7.0.6.1 | Firmware: 22.35.8002).
>>
>> An engineer from my team reported 2 issues:
>>
>> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851
>> Did not reproduce in 22.11.10, git-bisect points to 58a6421bc396
>> ("net/mlx5: fix multicast")..
> Thanks, are you planning to send a fix, or should I just revert that commit?

I reached out to the engineer who authored the patch and am waiting for 
their response. I may not be able to get back to you with an answer 
today, though.

>
>> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1852
>> Reproduces on v22.11.10.
> Given it's not new, unless someone can send a patch to fix it, I'll
> leave it as-is