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Subject: 23.11.2 patches review and test

Hi all,

Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 23.11.2.

The planned date for the final release is 31th 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=v23.11.2-rc2

These patches are located at branch 23.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
    https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/

Thanks.

Xueming Li [off-list ref]

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Hello,

We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on v23.11.2-rc2:
- 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 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.07-0.6.1.0 / Firmware: 22.42.1000
- NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.07-0.6.1.0 / Firmware: 28.42.1000
- DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 2.8 / Firmware: 24.42.1000


Additionally, we ran build tests with multiple configurations on the following OS/driver combinations (all passed):
- Debian 12 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.04-0.7.0.0.
- Ubuntu 20.04.6 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.07-0.6.1.0.
- Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core master (dd9c687).
- Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core v28.0.
- Fedora 40 with rdma-core v48.0.
- Fedora 42 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v51.0.
- OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 with rdma-core v49.1.

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

Thanks,
Ali