23.11.6 patches review and test

[Shani Peretz]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2026 10:00
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> Subject: Re: 23.11.6 patches review and test
> 
> 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

That’s great, thanks Ali!