24.11.5 patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani]

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.

Regards,
Ali