24.11.4 patches review and test

[Xu, HailinX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2025 1:16 AM
> To: Xu, HailinX <hailinx.xu at intel.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> Cc: Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; Luca Boccassi
> <bluca at debian.org>; Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>;
> Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson at intel.com>; Gowrishankar
> Muthukrishnan <gmuthukrishn at marvell.com>; Burakov, Anatoly
> <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>; Shani Peretz <shperetz at nvidia.com>
> Subject: Re: 24.11.4 patches review and test
> 
> On 17/12/2025 08:39, Xu, HailinX wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
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> >> Subject: 24.11.4 patches review and test
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 24.11.4.
> >>
> >> The planned date for the final release is 18th December.
> >>
> >> 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=v24.11.4-rc1
> >>
> >> These patches are located at branch 24.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> >>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Kevin
> >>
> >> ---
> > Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk24.11.4-rc1 all validation test
> done. found two new issues.
> >
> 
> Hi Hailin. Thanks for testing and reporting these.
> 
> > New issues:
> >   1. virtio_ipsec_cryptodev_func/test_virtio_aes_cbc_sha1_hmac:
> > vhost-user meet Segmentation fault after sending package
> 
> Were you able to dissect which commit is causing this ?
> 
> Is it the same commit as below ?
> 
> That was the only change to drivers/crypto/virtio/*
> 
We are trying to find bad commits that affect it, and we can confirm that it is not the same issue as the second one.

> >   2. Bug 1849 - [dpdk-22.11.11rc1]
> > virtio_perf_cryptodev_func/test_virtio_aes_cbc_sha1_hmac:
> > dpdk-test-crypto-perf EAL: Error: Invalid memory
> 
> As you've dissected this, similar to 22.11 I've reverted below commit.
> 
> Can you re-run these 2 tests with the offending patch reverted ?
> 
> commit 2effa20c58fba0b2702681c7ee063786abc36f4c
> Author: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gmuthukrishn at marvell.com>
> Date:   Sat Oct 11 10:07:03 2025 +0530
> 
>     crypto/virtio: fix cookies leak
> 
>     [ upstream commit 8b0d855fd98c6c88665489fdba12f8e603deae21 ]
> 
> >
> > known issue:
> >   1. Linkville vfs can't forward packets -. has two fix patch not merge into
> 24.11 LTS
> >      - has fix patches:
> > https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=34939&archive=both&
> > state=*
> >
> 
> on those patches
> - 2/3 is applied on 24.11 branch.
> - 1/3 and 3/3 are not tagged for backport.
> 1/3 is just a clean up and not really needed.
> 3/3 is a bit intrusive and does not apply. It is too close to the
> 24.11.4 release now, but we could consider a custom backport for 24.11.5 if
> it's really needed.
> 
I think this is necessary because it affects the normal forwarding of E610 vf.

Regards,
Xu, Hailin

> > * Build & CFLAG compile: cover the build test with latest GCC/Clang version
> on the following OS(all passed)
> >   - Ubuntu25.04/Ubuntu24.04.3
> >   - RHEL9.6/RHEL10
> >   - Fedora42
> >   - FreeBSD14.3
> >   - SUSE15.6
> >   - OpenAnolis8.10
> >   - OpenEuler24.04-SP2
> >   - AzureLinux3.0
> >
> > * Function tests: All test done and there are one known issue and found two
> new issues.
> >   - i40E-(XXV710, X722) PF/VF: test scenarios including
> basic/RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum
> offload/mac_filter/VLAN/VXLAN/RSS, etc.
> >   - IXGBE-(82599, E610) 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