25.11.1 patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani]

On 4/21/26 1:13 PM, Kevin Traynor wrote:

> On 4/20/26 8:37 PM, Ali Alnubani wrote:
>> On 4/2/26 7:44 PM, Kevin Traynor wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 25.11.1.
>>>
>>> The planned date for the final release is 21st April 2026.
>>>
>>> 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=v25.11.1-rc1
>>>
>>> These patches are located at branch 25.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>>>       https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>> ---
>> Hello,
>>
>> We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware:
>>
>> - 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 (See https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html for
>> supported features)
>> - 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.
>>
>> We ran our testing with Shani's backport for 9ec0c6bda04a ("net/mlx5:
>> add RSS TIR registration API") on top of  v25.11.1-rc1. Environments:
>> - NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 24.04 / Driver: DOCA-Host 3.3.0-088000 /
>> Firmware: 28.48.1000
>> - DPU: BlueField-3 / OS: Ubuntu 24.04 | DOCA SW version: 3.3.0 /
>> Firmware: 24.48.1000
>>
>> We have not identified any new issues caused by changes in this release;
>> however, we are still investigating test failures that are suspected to
>> be related to environment changes.
>>
> Thanks for testing Ali. I don't mind waiting a few more days for the
> release if you want some time to investigate this ? or if you are fairly
> confident it is environment changes, I can go ahead with the release.
>
> Let me know which you prefer.

Hello Kevin,

I’m fine with you going ahead with the release.

Thanks a lot,

Ali