23.11.6 patches review and test

[Xu, HailinX]

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> From: Shani Peretz <shperetz at nvidia.com>
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> Subject: 23.11.6 patches review and test
> 
> 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:
> 
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v23.11.6-rc1
> 
> These patches are located at branch 23.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Shani
> 
> ---
Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk23.11.6-rc1 all validation test done. found 1 new issue.

unit_tests_cryptodev_func/cryptodev_qat_raw_api_autotest: AES GCM Authenticated Test Suite test failing  -- has fix patch
fix patch: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2026-January/055546.html

* Build & CFLAG compile: cover the build test with latest GCC/Clang version on the following OS(all passed)
  - Ubuntu25.04/Ubuntu24.04.2
  - RHEL9.6/RHEL10
  - Fedora42
  - FreeBSD14.2
  - SUSE15.6
  - OpenAnolis8.10
  - AzureLinux3.0

* Function tests: found 1 new issue.
  - i40E-(XXV710, X722) PF/VF: test scenarios including basic/RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/mac_filter/VLAN/VXLAN/RSS, etc. 
  - IXGBE-(82599) PF/VF: test scenarios including basic/RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/mac_filter/VLAN/VXLAN/RSS, etc. 
  - ICE-(E810, E2100) PF/VF: test scenarios including basic/Switch/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
  - IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
  - Virtio: both function and performance test are covered. Such as PVP/Virtio_loopback/virtio-user loopback/virtio-net VM2VM perf testing/VMAWARE ESXI 8.0, etc.
  - Cryptodev: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
  - DLB: test scenarios including DLB2.0 and DLB2.5
  - Other: test scenarios including AF_XDP, Power, CBDMA, DSA

* Performance test: All test done and passed
  - Thoughput Performance
  - Cryptodev Latency
  - PF/VF NIC single core
  - XXV710/E810 NIC Performance


Regards,
Xu, Hailin