RedHat QE tested below 18 scenarios on RHEL 9.4 and didn't find any new
dpdk issues.

   - VM with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size):
   PASS
   - VM with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size) :
   PASS
   - VM with device assignment(VF) throughput testing: PASS
   - PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing: PASS
   - PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing: PASS
   - PVP vhost-user 1Q - cross numa node throughput testing: PASS
   - VM with vhost-user 2 queues throughput testing: PASS
   - vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server qemu reconnect: PASS
   - vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server ovs reconnect: PASS
   - PVP  reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: PASS
   - PVP 1Q live migration testing: PASS
   - PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing: PASS
   - VM with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing: PASS
   - VM with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M hugepage
   size): PASS
   - VM with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing: PASS
   - VM with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing: PASS
   - Host PF + DPDK testing: PASS
   - Host VF + DPDK testing: PASS


Test Versions:

   - qemu-kvm-8.2.0
   - kernel 5.14
   - libvirt 10.0
   - openvswitch 3.2
   - git log

               commit 680818068d31764357075cde440232ce5ab8b786
               Author: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
               Date:   Thu Sep 5 10:34:16 2024 +0100
               version: 21.11.8-rc1
               Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>


Test device : X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)

Tested-by: Yanghang Liu <yanghliu@redhat.com>



On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 8:38 PM Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.8.
>
> The planned date for the final release is 18th September.
>
> 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=v21.11.8-rc1
>
> These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kevin
>
> ---
> Abdullah Ömer Yamaç (1):
>       hash: fix RCU reclamation size
>
> Anatoly Burakov (7):
>       net/e1000/base: fix link power down
>       fbarray: fix incorrect lookahead behavior
>       fbarray: fix incorrect lookbehind behavior
>       fbarray: fix lookahead ignore mask handling
>       fbarray: fix lookbehind ignore mask handling
>       fbarray: fix finding for unaligned length
>       malloc: fix multi-process wait condition handling
>
> Apeksha Gupta (2):
>       bus/dpaa: fix memory leak in bus scan
>       common/dpaax: fix node array overrun
>
> Bing Zhao (3):
>       net/mlx5: fix end condition of reading xstats
>       net/mlx5: fix uplink port probing in bonding mode
>       common/mlx5: remove unneeded field when modify RQ table
>
> Bruce Richardson (3):
>       ethdev: fix device init without socket-local memory
>       dma/idxd: fix default for workqueue options
>       dma/idxd: add verbose option to config script
>
> Chaoyong He (1):
>       app/testpmd: fix help string of BPF load command
>
> Chengwen Feng (1):
>       net/hns3: check Rx DMA address alignmnent
>
> Chenming Chang (1):
>       hash: fix return code description in Doxygen
>
> Chinh Cao (1):
>       net/ice/base: fix return type of bitmap hamming weight
>
> Ciara Loftus (2):
>       net/af_xdp: fix port ID in Rx mbuf
>       net/af_xdp: count mbuf allocation failures
>
> Ciara Power (1):
>       test/crypto: fix vector global buffer overflow
>
> Conor Fogarty (1):
>       hash: check name when creating a hash
>
> Dariusz Sosnowski (1):
>       net/mlx5: fix MTU configuration
>
> David Marchand (12):
>       bus/pci: fix build with musl 1.2.4 / Alpine 3.19
>       eal/unix: support ZSTD compression for firmware
>       net/ice: fix check for outer UDP checksum offload
>       app/testpmd: fix outer IP checksum offload
>       net/i40e: fix outer UDP checksum offload for X710
>       telemetry: lower log level on socket error
>       vdpa/sfc: remove dead code
>       eal/linux: lower log level on allocation attempt failure
>       buildtools: fix build with clang 17 and ASan
>       net/vmxnet3: fix init logs
>       config: fix warning for cross build with meson >= 1.3.0
>       net: fix outer UDP checksum in Intel prepare helper
>
> Dengdui Huang (5):
>       net/hns3: fix offload flag of IEEE 1588
>       net/hns3: fix Rx timestamp flag
>       net/hns3: fix double free for Rx/Tx queue
>       net/hns3: fix variable overflow
>       app/testpmd: handle IEEE1588 init failure
>
> Ed Czeck (1):
>       net/ark: fix index arithmetic
>
> Edwin Brossette (1):
>       net/ixgbe: do not create delayed interrupt handler twice
>
> Eric Joyner (1):
>       net/ice/base: fix GCS descriptor field offsets
>
> Ferruh Yigit (1):
>       app/testpmd: fix build on signed comparison
>
> Gagandeep Singh (3):
>       common/dpaax/caamflib: fix PDCP-SDAP watchdog error
>       bus/dpaa: fix bus scan for DMA devices
>       common/dpaax: fix IOVA table cleanup
>
> Ganapati Kundapura (2):
>       cryptodev: fix build without crypto callbacks
>       cryptodev: validate crypto callbacks from next node
>
> Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan (3):
>       crypto/cnxk: fix minimal input normalization
>       test/crypto: fix asymmetric capability test
>       test/crypto: remove unused stats in setup
>
> Gregory Etelson (1):
>       net/mlx5: fix Arm build with GCC 9.1
>
> Haifei Luo (1):
>       net/mlx5: fix indexed pool with invalid index
>
> Haoqian He (1):
>       vhost: cleanup resubmit info before inflight setup
>
> Hemant Agrawal (1):
>       baseband/la12xx: forbid secondary process
>
> Hernan Vargas (1):
>       app/bbdev: fix interrupt tests
>
> Jack Bond-Preston (1):
>       crypto/openssl: optimize 3DES-CTR context init
>
> Jacob Keller (1):
>       net/ice/base: fix size when allocating children arrays
>
> Jesse Brandeburg (1):
>       net/ice/base: fix sign extension
>
> Jiawei Wang (1):
>       net/mlx5: fix hash Rx queue release in flow sample
>
> Jiawen Wu (14):
>       net/txgbe: fix tunnel packet parsing
>       net/txgbe: fix flow filters in VT mode
>       net/txgbe: fix Tx hang on queue disable
>       net/txgbe: restrict configuration of VLAN strip offload
>       net/txgbe: reconfigure more MAC Rx registers
>       net/txgbe: fix VF promiscuous and allmulticast
>       net/ngbe: keep PHY power down while device probing
>       net/txgbe: fix hotplug remove
>       net/ngbe: fix hotplug remove
>       net/txgbe: fix MTU range
>       net/ngbe: fix MTU range
>       net/txgbe: fix memory leaks
>       net/ngbe: fix memory leaks
>       net/txgbe: fix Rx interrupt
>
> Jie Hai (2):
>       net/hns3: disable SCTP verification tag for RSS hash input
>       net/hns3: fix uninitialized variable in FEC query
>
> Joel Kavanagh (2):
>       test/crypto: fix allocation comment
>       doc: fix typo in l2fwd-crypto guide
>
> Julien Meunier (1):
>       net/fm10k: fix cleanup during init failure
>
> Jun Yang (1):
>       crypto/dpaa2_sec: fix event queue user context
>
> Karen Kelly (1):
>       doc: add baseline mode in l3fwd-power guide
>
> Kevin Laatz (1):
>       dma/idxd: add generic option for queue config
>
> Kevin Traynor (2):
>       doc: fix testpmd ring size command
>       eal: fix logs for '--lcores'
>
> Konstantin Ananyev (2):
>       bpf: fix MOV instruction evaluation
>       bpf: fix load hangs with six IPv6 addresses
>
> Long Wu (1):
>       net/nfp: fix disabling 32-bit build
>
> Luca Vizzarro (1):
>       vhost: fix build with GCC 13
>
> Maayan Kashani (1):
>       app/testpmd: fix parsing for connection tracking item
>
> Mateusz Pacuszka (1):
>       net/ice/base: fix check for existing switch rule
>
> Mattias Rönnblom (1):
>       net/af_packet: align Rx/Tx structs to cache line
>
> Michael Baum (1):
>       ethdev: fix GENEVE option item conversion
>
> Mingjin Ye (1):
>       bus/vdev: fix device reinitialization
>
> Nithin Dabilpuram (1):
>       net/cnxk: fix outbound security with higher packet burst
>
> Paul Greenwalt (1):
>       net/ice/base: fix potential TLV length overflow
>
> Piotr Pietruszewski (1):
>       net/ixgbe/base: revert advertising for X550 2.5G/5G
>
> Piotr Skajewski (1):
>       net/ixgbe/base: fix 5G link speed reported on VF
>
> Radoslaw Tyl (1):
>       net/ixgbe/base: fix PHY ID for X550
>
> Rahul Bhansali (1):
>       net/cnxk: fix promiscuous state after MAC change
>
> Rohit Raj (1):
>       bus/dpaa: remove redundant file descriptor check
>
> Satha Rao (1):
>       net/virtio: fix MAC table update
>
> Shai Brandes (3):
>       net/ena: fix bad checksum handling
>       net/ena: fix return value check
>       net/ena: fix checksum handling
>
> Sivaprasad Tummala (1):
>       app/testpmd: fix lcore ID restriction
>
> Stefan Wegrzyn (1):
>       net/ice/base: fix pointer to variable outside scope
>
> Stephen Hemminger (11):
>       pcapng: add memcpy check
>       net/virtio-user: add memcpy check
>       net/tap: fix file descriptor check in isolated flow
>       event/sw: fix warning from useless snprintf
>       net/ixgbe: do not update link status in secondary process
>       app/dumpcap: handle SIGTERM and SIGHUP
>       app/pdump: handle SIGTERM and SIGHUP
>       doc: remove reference to mbuf pkt field
>       app/testpmd: cleanup cleanly from signal
>       app/testpmd: fix early exit from signal
>       app/testpmd: fix interactive mode on Windows
>
> Sunil Kumar Kori (1):
>       net/cnxk: fix RSS config
>
> Tyler Retzlaff (3):
>       eal/windows: install sched.h file
>       latencystats: fix literal float suffix
>       common/mlx5: fix unsigned/signed mismatch
>
> Varun Sethi (1):
>       common/dpaax/caamflib: fix PDCP AES-AES watchdog error
>
> Venkat Kumar Ande (11):
>       net/axgbe: fix MDIO access for non-zero ports and CL45 PHYs
>       net/axgbe: reset link when link never comes back
>       net/axgbe: fix fluctuations for 1G Bel Fuse SFP
>       net/axgbe: update DMA coherency values
>       net/axgbe: disable interrupts during device removal
>       net/axgbe: fix SFP codes check for DAC cables
>       net/axgbe: fix connection for SFP+ active cables
>       net/axgbe: check only minimum speed for cables
>       net/axgbe: fix Tx flow on 30H HW
>       net/axgbe: delay AN timeout during KR training
>       net/axgbe: fix linkup in PHY status
>
> Vladimir Medvedkin (2):
>       net/ice: fix memory leaks in raw pattern parsing
>       net/ice: fix return value for raw pattern parsing
>
> Waldemar Dworakowski (1):
>       net/ice/base: fix board type definition
>
> Wenwu Ma (2):
>       dmadev: fix structure alignment
>       dma/idxd: fix setup with Ubuntu 24.04
>
> Yahui Cao (1):
>       net/ice/base: fix masking when reading context
>
> Yingming Mao (1):
>       doc: fix mbuf flags
>
> Zerun Fu (2):
>       bus/pci: fix UIO resource mapping in secondary process
>       bus/pci: fix FD in secondary process
>
> Zhichao Zeng (2):
>       telemetry: fix connection parameter parsing
>       net/ice/base: fix temporary failures reading NVM
>
>