RE: 22.11.11 patches review and test

[Maayan Kashani <mkashani@nvidia.com>]

++@Minggang(Gavin) Li

Regards,
Maayan Kashani

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, 22 December 2025 13:27
> To: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org; dev@dpdk.org; John McNamara
> <john.mcnamara@intel.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>;
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> Salaheddin Badawi <sbadawi@nvidia.com>; Wael Abualrub
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> Subject: Re: 22.11.11 patches review and test
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> On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 at 19:06, Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 at 18:58, Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > 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-of
> > > >> floads)
> > > >> - 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.
> >
> > Thank you, no problem it can wait a while
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Any update?
> 
> Thanks