Re: 24.11.3 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>]

On 15/08/2025 18:47, Ali Alnubani wrote:
> 
> On 8/13/25 11:25 PM, 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,
>>
>> 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/
>>
>> 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.
> 

Hi Ali,

> Can confirm that we didn't detect issues caused by changes in this 
> release. Apologies again for the delay.
> 

Good news! thanks for checking and following up.

I'll go ahead with the release next week.

thanks,
Kevin.

> Regards,
> Ali
> 
>