21.11.6 patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani]

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> Subject: 21.11.6 patches review and test
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.6.
> 
> The planned date for the final release is 12 January.
> 
> 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=v21.11.6-rc1
> 
> These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Hello,

We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on 21.11.6-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.
- Regex application tests.
- Buffer Split tests.
- Tx scheduling tests.

Functional tests ran on:
- NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.10-1.1.9.0 / Firmware: 22.39.2048
- NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.10-1.1.9.0 / Firmware: 28.39.2048
- DPU: BlueField-2 / DOCA SW version: 2.5.0 / Firmware: 24.39.2048

Additionally, we ran build tests with multiple configurations on the following OS/driver combinations (all passed):
- Ubuntu 20.04.6 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-23.10-1.1.9.0.
- Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core master (9016f34).
- Ubuntu 20.04.6 with rdma-core v28.0.
- Fedora 38 with rdma-core v44.0.
- Fedora 40 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v48.0.
- OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 with rdma-core v42.0.
- Windows Server 2019 with Clang 16.0.6.

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

Thanks,
Ali