24.11.2 patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani]

Hello,

On 3/28/25 1:14 PM, Kevin Traynor wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 24.11.2.
>
> The planned date for the final release is 14 April.
>
> 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=v24.11.2-rc1
>
> These patches are located at branch 24.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>      https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kevin
>
> ---

We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on v24.11.2-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 22.04 / Driver: 
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.10-2.1.8.0 / Firmware: 22.43.2566
- NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 22.04 / Driver: 
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.10-2.1.8.0 / Firmware: 28.43.2566
- DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 2.10.0 / Firmware: 24.44.1036

Additionally, we ran build tests with multiple configurations on the 
following OS/driver combinations (all passed):
- Ubuntu 22.04 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.10-2.1.8.0.
- Ubuntu 24.04 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.10-2.1.8.0.
- Ubuntu 22.04 with rdma-core master (9e9a957).
- Ubuntu 24.04 with rdma-core v50.0.
- Fedora 41 with rdma-core v51.0.
- Fedora 43 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v56.0.
- OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 with rdma-core v49.1.
- Windows Server 2022 with Clang 16.0.6.

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

Thanks,
Ali