23.11.6 patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani]

On 1/7/26 12:00 PM, Shani Peretz wrote:

> 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
>
> ---


Hello,

We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on v23.11.6-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:
- NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 22.04 / Driver: 
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.10-6.1.6.1 / Firmware: 22.39.5124
- NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 22.04 / Driver: 
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.10-6.1.6.1 / Firmware: 28.39.5124
- DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 2.5.5 / Firmware: 24.39.5124

Additionally, our build tests passed on Linux and Windows.

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

Thanks,
Ali