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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 24, 2025 12:55 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>; stable@dpdk.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe@microsoft.com>; David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>; Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>; Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>; John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>;
 Ju-Hyoung Lee <juhlee@microsoft.com>; Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>; Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>; Pei Zhang <pezhang@redhat.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas@monjalon.net>; Yanghang Liu <yanghliu@redhat.com>;
 benjamin.walker@intel.com; qian.q.xu@intel.com; yuan.peng@intel.com; zhaoyan.chen@intel.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: 23.11.5 patches review and test<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Hi Ali,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thanks very much for your help!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> Ali Alnubani <<a href="mailto:alialnu@nvidia.com">alialnu@nvidia.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 19, 2025 11:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Xueming Li <<a href="mailto:xuemingl@nvidia.com">xuemingl@nvidia.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:stable@dpdk.org">stable@dpdk.org</a> <<a href="mailto:stable@dpdk.org">stable@dpdk.org</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:dev@dpdk.org">dev@dpdk.org</a> <<a href="mailto:dev@dpdk.org">dev@dpdk.org</a>>; Abhishek Marathe <<a href="mailto:Abhishek.Marathe@microsoft.com">Abhishek.Marathe@microsoft.com</a>>; David Christensen <<a href="mailto:drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com">drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com</a>>;
 Hemant Agrawal <<a href="mailto:hemant.agrawal@nxp.com">hemant.agrawal@nxp.com</a>>; Ian Stokes <<a href="mailto:ian.stokes@intel.com">ian.stokes@intel.com</a>>; Jerin Jacob <<a href="mailto:jerinj@marvell.com">jerinj@marvell.com</a>>; John McNamara <<a href="mailto:john.mcnamara@intel.com">john.mcnamara@intel.com</a>>;
 Ju-Hyoung Lee <<a href="mailto:juhlee@microsoft.com">juhlee@microsoft.com</a>>; Kevin Traynor <<a href="mailto:ktraynor@redhat.com">ktraynor@redhat.com</a>>; Luca Boccassi <<a href="mailto:bluca@debian.org">bluca@debian.org</a>>; Pei Zhang <<a href="mailto:pezhang@redhat.com">pezhang@redhat.com</a>>;
 Raslan Darawsheh <<a href="mailto:rasland@nvidia.com">rasland@nvidia.com</a>>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <<a href="mailto:thomas@monjalon.net">thomas@monjalon.net</a>>; Yanghang Liu <<a href="mailto:yanghliu@redhat.com">yanghliu@redhat.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:benjamin.walker@intel.com">benjamin.walker@intel.com</a> <<a href="mailto:benjamin.walker@intel.com">benjamin.walker@intel.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:qian.q.xu@intel.com">qian.q.xu@intel.com</a> <<a href="mailto:qian.q.xu@intel.com">qian.q.xu@intel.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:yuan.peng@intel.com">yuan.peng@intel.com</a> <<a href="mailto:yuan.peng@intel.com">yuan.peng@intel.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:zhaoyan.chen@intel.com">zhaoyan.chen@intel.com</a> <<a href="mailto:zhaoyan.chen@intel.com">zhaoyan.chen@intel.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: 23.11.5 patches review and test</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On 8/11/25 4:42 PM, Xueming Li wrote:<br>
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> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 23.11.5.<br>
><br>
> The planned date for the final release is 15th August.<br>
><br>
> Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report<br>
> any issues/results with reply-all to this mail. For the final release<br>
> the fixes and reported validations will be added to the release notes.<br>
><br>
> A release candidate tarball can be found at:<br>
><br>
>      <a href="https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v23.11.5-rc1">https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v23.11.5-rc1</a><br>
><br>
> These patches are located at branch 23.11 of dpdk-stable repo:<br>
>      <a href="https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/">https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/</a><br>
><br>
> Thanks.<br>
><br>
> Xueming Li <<a href="mailto:xuemingl@nvidia.com">xuemingl@nvidia.com</a>><br>
><br>
> ---<br>
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Hello,<br>
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We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on v23.11.5-rc1:<br>
- Basic functionality:<br>
   Send and receive multiple types of traffic.<br>
- testpmd xstats counter test.<br>
- testpmd timestamp test.<br>
- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.<br>
- rte_flow tests <br>
(<a href="https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#supported-hardware-offloads">https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#supported-hardware-offloads</a>)<br>
- RSS tests.<br>
- VLAN filtering, stripping, and insertion tests.<br>
- Checksum and TSO tests.<br>
- ptype tests.<br>
- link_status_interrupt example application tests.<br>
- l3fwd-power example application tests.<br>
- Multi-process example applications tests.<br>
- Hardware LRO tests.<br>
- Buffer Split tests.<br>
- Tx scheduling tests.<br>
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Functional tests ran on:<br>
- NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 22.04 / Driver: <br>
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.10-5.1.4.0 / Firmware: 22.39.5050<br>
- NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 22.04 / Driver: <br>
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.10-5.1.4.0 / Firmware: 28.39.5050<br>
- DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 2.5.4 / Firmware: 24.39.5050<br>
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Additionally, we ran build tests with multiple configurations on the <br>
following OS/driver combinations (all passed):<br>
- Debian 12 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.10-3.2.5.0.<br>
- Ubuntu 22.04 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.10-3.2.5.0.<br>
- Ubuntu 24.04 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.10-3.2.5.0.<br>
- Ubuntu 22.04 with rdma-core master (091ddb5).<br>
- Ubuntu 24.04 with rdma-core v50.0.<br>
- Fedora 42 with rdma-core v55.0.<br>
- Fedora 43 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v58.0.<br>
- OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 with rdma-core v49.1.<br>
- Windows Server 2022 with Clang 18.1.8.<br>
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We don't see new issues caused by the changes in this release.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Ali<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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