23.11.6 patches review and test

[Shani Peretz]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xu, HailinX <hailinx.xu at intel.com>
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> Subject: RE: 23.11.6 patches review and test
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shani Peretz <shperetz at nvidia.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2026 6:00 PM
> > To: stable at dpdk.org
> > Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe
> <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.com>;
> > Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>; benjamin.walker at intel.com; David
> > Christensen <drc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Hemant Agrawal
> > <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>; Ian Stokes <ian.stokes at intel.com>; Jerin
> > Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>; Mcnamara, John
> <john.mcnamara at intel.com>;
> > Ju- Hyoung Lee <juhlee at microsoft.com>; Kevin Traynor
> > <ktraynor at redhat.com>; Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>; Pei Zhang
> > <pezhang at redhat.com>; qian.q.xu at intel.com; Raslan Darawsheh
> > <rasland at nvidia.com>; Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>;
> Yanghang
> > Liu <yanghliu at redhat.com>; yuan.peng at intel.com;
> zhaoyan.chen at intel.com
> > Subject: 23.11.6 patches review and test
> >
> > 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
> >
> > ---
> Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk23.11.6-rc1 all validation test done.
> found 1 new issue.
> 
> unit_tests_cryptodev_func/cryptodev_qat_raw_api_autotest: AES GCM
> Authenticated Test Suite test failing  -- has fix patch fix patch:
> https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2026-January/055546.html
> 

Fix was added to 23.11, could you check if your tests are passing with the new patch? https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk-stable/tree/23.11

> * Build & CFLAG compile: cover the build test with latest GCC/Clang version on
> the following OS(all passed)
>   - Ubuntu25.04/Ubuntu24.04.2
>   - RHEL9.6/RHEL10
>   - Fedora42
>   - FreeBSD14.2
>   - SUSE15.6
>   - OpenAnolis8.10
>   - AzureLinux3.0
> 
> * Function tests: found 1 new issue.
>   - i40E-(XXV710, X722) PF/VF: test scenarios including
> basic/RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum
> offload/mac_filter/VLAN/VXLAN/RSS, etc.
>   - IXGBE-(82599) 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
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Xu, Hailin

That's great, thank you!