<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"> <style></style> </head> <body lang="en-IL" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"> <div class="WordSection1"> Great thanks Yanghang!<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt"> <div> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"> From: Yanghang Liu <yanghliu@redhat.com> Sent: Sunday, 18 January 2026 15:27 To: Shani Peretz <shperetz@nvidia.com> Cc: stable@dpdk.org; dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe@microsoft.com>; Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>; benjamin.walker@intel.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>; qian.q.xu@intel.com; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <thomas@monjalon.net>; yuan.peng@intel.com; zhaoyan.chen@intel.com Subject: Re: 23.11.6 patches review and test<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" style="background:#FFEB9C"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> External email: Use caution opening links or attachments <o:p></o:p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> I tested below 18 scenarios on RHEL 10.0 host and didn't find any new dpdk issues.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>VM with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size): PASS<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>VM with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size) : PASS<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>VM with device assignment(VF) throughput testing: PASS<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing: PASS<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing: PASS<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>PVP vhost-user 1Q - cross numa node throughput testing: PASS<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>VM with vhost-user 2 queues throughput testing: PASS<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server(qemu reconnect): PASS<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server(ovs reconnect): PASS<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>PVP reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: PASS<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>PVP 1Q live migration testing: PASS<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing: PASS<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>VM with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing: PASS<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>VM with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M): PASS<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>VM with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing: PASS<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>VM with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing: PASS<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>Host PF + DPDK testing: PASS<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>· <![endif]>Host VF + DPDK testing: PASS<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Test Versions:<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <ul type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5"> qemu-kvm-9.1.0<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5"> kernel 6.12<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5"> libvirt 10.10<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5"> ovs 3.3<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5"> git describe<o:p></o:p></li></ul> <ul type="disc"> <ul type="circle"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo5"> v23.11.6-rc1<o:p></o:p></li></ul> </ul> <ul type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5"> Test device : X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)<o:p></o:p></li></ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> Tested-by: Yanghang Liu <<a href="mailto:yanghliu@redhat.com" target="_blank">yanghliu@redhat.com</a>><o:p></o:p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <o:p> </o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div> On Wed, Jan 7, 2026 at 6:01 PM Shani Peretz <<a href="mailto:shperetz@nvidia.com">shperetz@nvidia.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p> </div> <blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt"> Hi all, Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 23.11.6. The planned date for the final release is January 22th. 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: <a href="https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v23.11.6-rc1" target="_blank">https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v23.11.6-rc1</a> These patches are located at branch 23.11 of dpdk-stable repo: <a href="https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/" target="_blank">https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/</a> Thanks. Shani --- Aarnav JP (1): net/cnxk: fix default meter pre-color Adrian Schollmeyer (1): net/mlx5: store MTU at Rx queue allocation time Amiya Ranjan Mohakud (1): net/vmxnet3: disable RSS for single queue for ESX8.0+ Anatoly Burakov (5): net/ice: remove indirection for FDIR filters net/ice: fix memory leak in raw pattern parse bus/pci: fix resource leak in secondary process bus/cdx: fix device name in probing error message bus/cdx: fix release in probing for secondary process Andrew Boyer (1): doc: add Pollara 400 device in ionic guide Anurag Mandal (1): net/i40e: fix symmetric Toeplitz hashing for SCTP Bing Zhao (1): app/flow-perf: fix rules array length Brick Yang (2): net/dpaa2: fix L3/L4 checksum results net/dpaa2: receive packets with additional parse errors Bruce Richardson (10): net/ice: fix vector Rx VLAN offload flags net/intel: fix assumption about tag placement order net/ice: fix VLAN tag reporting on Rx doc: fix display of commands in cpfl guide net/ice: fix initialization with 8 ports ethdev: fix VLAN filter parameter description net/fm10k: fix build with GCC 16 app/pdump: remove hard-coded memory channels telemetry: make socket handler typedef private net/ice: fix path selection for QinQ Tx offload Chengwen Feng (7): dma/hisilicon: fix stop with pending transfers test/dma: fix failure condition net/hns3: fix overwrite mbuf in vector path app/dma-perf: fix use after free app/dma-perf: fix on-flight DMA when verifying data app/testpmd: fix DCB Tx port app/testpmd: fix DCB Rx queues Chinh Cao (1): net/ice/base: fix integer overflow on NVM init Ciara Loftus (5): net/iavf: fix Tx vector path selection logic doc: fix feature list of ice driver doc: fix feature list of iavf driver net/e1000/base: fix crash on init with GCC 13 net/idpf: fix queue setup with TSO offload Dariusz Sosnowski (8): app/testpmd: fix conntrack action query net/mlx5: fix min and max MTU reporting net/mlx5/hws: fix TIR action support in FDB net/mlx5: fix indirect flow age action handling net/mlx5: fix Direct Verbs counter offset detection net/mlx5: fix indirect RSS action hash net/mlx5: fix error reporting on masked indirect actions net/mlx5: fix flow tag indexes support on root table David Marchand (19): test/telemetry: fix test calling all commands eal: fix plugin dir walk cmdline: fix port list parsing cmdline: fix highest bit port list parsing tailq: fix lookup macro hash: fix unaligned access in predictable RSS graph: fix unaligned access in stats eventdev: fix listing timer adapters with telemetry cfgfile: fix section count with no name baseband/acc: fix exported header eventdev: do not include driver header in DMA adapter gpudev: fix driver header for Windows drivers: fix some exported headers test/debug: fix crash with mlx5 devices net/tap: fix build with LTO eventdev/crypto: fix build with clang 21 rawdev: fix build with clang 21 vhost: fix external buffer in VDUSE net/dpaa2: remove ethdev pointer from bus device Dengdui Huang (4): app/testpmd: increase size of set cores list command net/hns3: fix inconsistent lock net/hns3: fix VLAN resources freeing net: fix L2 length for GRE packets Emma Finn (1): crypto/qat: fix CCM request descriptor hash state size Ferruh Yigit (1): ethdev: convert string initialization Gagandeep Singh (2): net/dpaa2: fix shaper rate bus/dpaa: improve cleanup Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan (1): crypto/virtio: fix cookies leak Gregory Etelson (6): net/mlx5: fix storage of shared Rx queues net/mlx5: fix interface name parameter definition net/mlx4: fix unnecessary comma net/mlx5: fix unnecessary commas net/mlx5: fix external queues access net/mlx5: fix send to kernel action resources release Hemant Agrawal (8): net/enetfec: fix file descriptor leak on read error net/enetfec: fix buffer descriptor size configuration net/enetfec: fix Tx queue free net/enetfec: fix checksum flag handling and error return net/enetfec: reject multi-queue configuration net/enetfec: fix memory leak in Rx buffer cleanup net/enetfec: reject Tx deferred queue net/dpaa2: fix duplicate call of close Itai Sharoni (1): net/mlx5/windows: fix match criteria in flow creation Itamar Gozlan (1): net/mlx5/hws: fix flow rule hash capability Jacob Keller (3): net/ice/base: fix memory leak in HW profile handling net/iavf: fix check for PF Rx timestamp support net/iavf: fix Rx timestamp validity check Jasper Tran O'Leary (1): net/gve: free device resources on close Jerin Jacob (3): net/iavf: fix build with clang 21 test: fix build with clang 21 lib: fix backticks matching in Doxygen comments Jiawen Wu (18): net/txgbe: reduce memory size of ring descriptors net/ngbe: reduce memory size of ring descriptors net/txgbe: fix VF Rx buffer size in config register net/txgbe: add device arguments for FDIR net/txgbe: fix maximum number of FDIR filters net/txgbe: fix FDIR mode clearing net/txgbe: fix FDIR drop action for L4 match packets net/txgbe: fix FDIR rule raw relative for L3 packets net/txgbe: switch to FDIR when ntuple filter is full net/txgbe: remove unsupported flow action mark doc: add device arguments in txgbe guide net/txgbe: fix FDIR perfect mode for IPv6 net/txgbe: fix to create FDIR filter for tunnel packet net/txgbe: fix FDIR filter for SCTP tunnel net/txgbe: filter FDIR match flex bytes for tunnel net/ngbe: fix checksum error counter net/txgbe: fix checksum error counter net/txgbe: fix FDIR input mask John Miller (1): net/ark: remove double mbuf free Joshua Washington (7): net/gve: do not write zero-length descriptors net/gve: validate Tx packet before sending net/gve: fix disabling interrupts on DQ net/gve: free Rx mbufs if allocation fails on ring setup net/gve: send whole packet when mbuf is large net/gve: clean when insufficient Tx descriptors net/gve: add DQO Tx descriptor limit Kerem Aksu (1): net/af_packet: fix crash in secondary process Kevin Traynor (1): doc: fix NVIDIA bifurcated driver presentation link Khadem Ullah (5): app/testpmd: monitor state of primary process doc: add conntrack state inspect command to testpmd guide app/testpmd: validate DSCP and VLAN for meter creation net/mlx5: fix connection tracking state item validation app/testpmd: stop forwarding in secondary process Maayan Kashani (5): net/mlx5: fix unsupported flow rule port action net/mlx5: fix non-template age rules flush net/mlx5: fix modify field action restriction app/testpmd: fix flex item link parsing net/mlx5: fix device start error handling Mattias Rönnblom (1): bitops: improve power of 2 alignment documentation Maxime Coquelin (2): vhost: add VDUSE virtqueue ready state polling workaround vhost: fix virtqueue info init in VDUSE vring setup Megha Ajmera (1): sched: fix WRR parameter data type Michael Baum (1): net/mlx5: fix multi-process Tx default rules Nithinsen Kaithakadan (1): test/crypto: fix mbuf handling Nupur Uttarwar (1): net/mlx5/hws: fix buddy memory allocation Pandi Kumar Maharajan (1): net/ice/base: fix memory leak in recipe handling Prashant Gupta (1): net/dpaa2: fix uninitialized variable Radu Nicolau (2): crypto/qat: fix ECDH test/crypto: fix vector initialization Robin Jarry (3): net/tap: fix interrupt callback crash after failed start buildtools/pmdinfogen: fix warning with python 3.14 graph: fix updating edge with active graph Roi Dayan (3): net/mlx5: fix leak of flow indexed pools net/mlx5: release representor interrupt handler common/mlx5: release unused mempool entries Ronak Doshi (1): net/vmxnet3: fix mapping of mempools to queues Rongwei Liu (3): net/mlx5: fix indirect flow action memory leak net/mlx5: fix meter mark allocation net/mlx5: fix indirect meter index leak Satha Rao (1): common/cnxk: fix null SQ access Shai Brandes (2): net/ena: fix PCI BAR mapping on 64K page size net/ena/base: fix unsafe memcpy on invalid memory Shaiq Wani (1): net/ice/base: fix adding special words Shani Peretz (7): eal: fix DMA mask validation with IOVA mode option net/mlx5: fix MTU initialization app/crypto-perf: fix plaintext size exceeds buffer size net/bonding: fix MAC address propagation in 802.3ad mode net/mlx5: fix Tx metadata pattern template mismatch net/hns3: fix atomic API usage for LTS compatibility Revert "net/mlx5: align PF and VF/SF MAC address handling" Sivaprasad Tummala (3): eal/x86: enable timeout in AMD power monitor examples/l3fwd-power: fix telemetry command registration net/mlx5: fix spurious CPU wakeups Stephen Hemminger (6): dmadev: fix debug build with tracepoints net/nfp: fix metering cleanup pdump: handle primary process exit net/mlx5: fix uninitialized variable examples/server_node_efd: fix format overflow examples/vdpa: fix format overflow Sucharitha Sarananaga (1): crypto/cnxk: refactor RSA verification Sunil Kumar Kori (1): common/cnxk: fix max number of SQB buffers in clean up Tathagat Priyadarshi (1): gro: fix payload corruption in coalescing packets Thierry Herbelot (1): config/arm: enable NUMA for Neoverse N2 Thomas Monjalon (11): efd: fix AVX2 support bus/pci: fix build with MinGW 13 net/mlx5: fix build with MinGW 13 test/hash: check memory allocation vdpa/mlx5: remove unused constant crypto/mlx5: remove unused constants regex/mlx5: remove useless constants common/mlx5: remove useless constants net/mlx5: remove useless constants net/mlx5: remove unused macros doc: fix note in FreeBSD guide Tomasz Duszynski (1): common/cnxk: fix async event handling Vamsi Attunuru (2): net/octeon_ep: fix device start net/octeon_ep: fix mbuf data offset update Vanshika Shukla (2): net/enetfec: fix out-of-bounds access in UIO mapping net/dpaa: fix resource leak Venkat Kumar Ande (1): net/axgbe: fix build with GCC 16 Viacheslav Ovsiienko (5): net/mlx5/hws: fix ESP header match in strict mode net/mlx5/hws: fix ESP header match in strict mode net/mlx5: fix ESP header match after UDP for group 0 net/mlx5: fix control flow leakage for external SQ net/mlx5: fix flex flow item header length Vladimir Medvedkin (1): fib6: fix tbl8 allocation check logic Wathsala Vithanage (4): mcslock: fix memory ordering ring: establish safe partial order in default mode ring: establish a safe partial order in hts-ring ring: establish safe partial order in RTS mode Xingui Yang (1): net/hns3: fix VLAN tag loss for short tunnel frame Yang Ming (2): eal: fix MP socket cleanup crypto/ipsec_mb: fix QP release in secondary Yunjian Wang (1): vhost: fix double fetch when dequeue offloading Zhichao Zeng (1): net/ice: fix statistics<o:p></o:p> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>