RE: 21.11.8 patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>]

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> Subject: 21.11.8 patches review and test
> 
> 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
> 
> ---

Hello,

We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on 21.11.8-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 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.07-0.6.1.0 / Firmware: 22.42.1000
- NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.07-0.6.1.0 / Firmware: 28.42.1000
- DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 2.8 / Firmware: 24.42.1000

Additionally, we ran build tests with multiple configurations on the following OS/driver combinations (all passed):
- Debian 12 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.07-0.6.1.0.
- Ubuntu 20.04.6 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.07-0.6.1.0.
- Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core master (dd9c687).
- Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core v28.0.
- Fedora 40 with rdma-core v48.0.
- Fedora 42 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v51.0.
- OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 with rdma-core v49.1.

We don't see new issues caused by the changes in this release.

Thanks,
Ali