22.11.11 patches review and test

[Minggang(Gavin) Li]

Sorry @Luca Boccassi, @Shani Peretz and @Kevin Traynor,
I double checked the first commit of the three and found that I did tag it with CC stable but missed the following commits to fix a bug introduce by it. This is the root cause of the mess made by me. The first commit introduced behavior change that should not be backported to stable branches.
Please revert the commits mentioned.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maayan Kashani <mkashani at nvidia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2025 3:33 PM
> To: Minggang(Gavin) Li <gavinl at nvidia.com>; Luca Boccassi
> <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>; Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>; Shani Peretz
> <shperetz at nvidia.com>; Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org; dev at dpdk.org; John McNamara
> <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>; NBU-
> Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas at monjalon.net>; Salaheddin
> Badawi <sbadawi at nvidia.com>; Wael Abualrub <waela at nvidia.com>
> Subject: RE: 22.11.11 patches review and test
> 
> ++ at Shani Peretz
> ++ at Kevin Traynor
> 
> Please see below,
> 
> Regards,
> Maayan Kashani
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Minggang(Gavin) Li <gavinl at nvidia.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, 24 December 2025 5:09
> > To: Maayan Kashani <mkashani at nvidia.com>; Luca Boccassi
> > <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>; Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>
> > Cc: stable at dpdk.org; dev at dpdk.org; John McNamara
> > <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>;
> > NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas at monjalon.net>;
> > Salaheddin Badawi <sbadawi at nvidia.com>; Wael Abualrub
> > <waela at nvidia.com>
> > Subject: RE: 22.11.11 patches review and test
> >
> > Hi Luca,
> >
> > The issue(https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851) was introduced
> > by cherry-picking some of the 3 related commits of refactoring
> > multicast handling of PF in NV pmd. I don't understand why it/they
> > were chosen because they included behavior change in PF. They should
> > not be backported to stable ones from my point of view.
> >
> > The commit(s) polluted 22.11, 23.11 and 24.11 so far. Please revert
> > below commits to fix the issue.
> >
> > 24.11
> > ddcaa1671f net/mlx5: fix multicast
> > adce6d130b net/mlx5: align PF and VF/SF MAC address handling
> >
> > 23.11
> > c070455e8b net/mlx5: align PF and VF/SF MAC address handling
> >
> > 22.11
> > 58a6421bc3 net/mlx5: fix multicast
> > ed3411217b net/mlx5: align PF and VF/SF MAC address handling
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Maayan Kashani <mkashani at nvidia.com>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2025 10:09 PM
> > > To: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>; Ali Alnubani
> > > <alialnu at nvidia.com>; Minggang(Gavin) Li <gavinl at nvidia.com>
> > > Cc: stable at dpdk.org; dev at dpdk.org; John McNamara
> > > <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>;
> > NBU-
> > > Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas at monjalon.net>;
> > Salaheddin
> > > Badawi <sbadawi at nvidia.com>; Wael Abualrub <waela at nvidia.com>
> > > Subject: RE: 22.11.11 patches review and test
> > >
> > > ++ at Minggang(Gavin) Li
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Maayan Kashani
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
> > > > Sent: Monday, 22 December 2025 13:27
> > > > To: Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>
> > > > Cc: stable at dpdk.org; dev at dpdk.org; John McNamara
> > > > <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>;
> > > > NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas at monjalon.net>;
> > > > Salaheddin Badawi <sbadawi at nvidia.com>; Wael Abualrub
> > > > <waela at nvidia.com>
> > > > Subject: Re: 22.11.11 patches review and test
> > > >
> > > > External email: Use caution opening links or attachments
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 at 19:06, Luca Boccassi
> > > > <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 at 18:58, Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 12/18/25 8:27 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > > > > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 at 18:24, Ali Alnubani
> > > > > > > <alialnu at nvidia.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > > >> On 12/4/25 2:56 AM, luca.boccassi at 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-hardw
> > > > > > >> ar
> > > > > > >> e-
> > > > > > >> 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