24.11.7 patches review and test

[Dariusz Sosnowski]

Hi all,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2026 3:46 PM
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> Subject: Re: 24.11.7 patches review and test
> 
> On 7/27/26 12:43 PM, luca.boccassi at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 24.11.7.The planned date
> for the final release is 2026/08/10.
> >
> > 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=v24.11.7-rc1
> >
> > These patches are located at branch 24.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> >      https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Luca Boccassi
> >
> > ---
> [..]
> > Maxime Peim (1):
> >        net/mlx5: prepend implicit items in sync flow creation
> [..]
> 
> Hello Maxime, Luca,
> 
> Commit 471350f6cd ("net/mlx5: prepend implicit items in sync flow
> creation") on 24.11 regresses eSwitch HWS when representor matching is
> disabled (repr_matching_en=0): traffic that should hit PF NIC Rx rules after
> FDB transfer is no longer received.
> 
> The backport dropped the priv->sh->config.repr_matching checks that
> previously gated implicit REPRESENTED_PORT / REG_C_0 prepending. That is
> correct on upstream main after repr_matching_en was removed (c41f621786),
> but on 24.11 the option still exists and, when off, TX representor tagging is not
> set up. Unconditionally prepending those matches then scopes NIC rules
> incorrectly.
> 
> Dariusz volunteered to send a fix.

I sent the fix for the above to stable mailing list: https://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/20260805103232.226835-1-dsosnowski@nvidia.com/

Best regards,
Dariusz Sosnowski