25.11.3 patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani]

On 8/4/26 1:47 PM, Kevin Traynor wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 25.11.3.
>
> The planned date for the final release is 20th August.
>
> 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=v25.11.3-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 on v25.11.3-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 (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.

Environments:
- NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 24.04 / Driver: DOCA-Host 3.4.0-085000 / 
Firmware: 28.49.1014
- DPU: BlueField-3 / OS: Ubuntu 24.04 | DOCA SW version: 3.4.0 / 
Firmware: 24.49.1014

We don't see new issues caused by changes in this release.

Thanks,
Ali