24.11.5 patches review and test

[Luca Boccassi]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 at 20:59, Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/4/26 12:58 PM, luca.boccassi at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 24.11.5.
> >
> > The planned date for the final release is April 16th.
> >
> > 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=v24.11.5-rc1
> >
> > These patches are located at branch 24.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> >      https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Luca Boccassi
>
> Hello Luca,
>
> Apologies for the delayed report and thank you for your patience,
>
> We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on v24.11.5-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 the following environments:
>
> - NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 22.04 / Driver:
> MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.10-4.1.4.0 / Firmware: 22.43.4100
> - NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 22.04 / Driver:
> MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.10-4.1.4.0 / Firmware: 28.43.4100
> - DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 2.9.4 / Firmware: 24.43.4100
>
> We did not find issues caused by changes in this release.

That's great, thanks