DPDK release candidate 25.11-rc3
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IBM - Power Systems Testing
DPDK v25.11-rc2 and v25.11-rc3
* Build CI on Fedora 40, 41, 42 and 43 container images for ppc64le
* Basic PF on Mellanox: No issue found
* Performance: not tested.
* OS:- RHEL 10.0 kernel: 6.12.0-55.9.1.el10_0.ppc64le
with gcc version 14.2.1 20250110 (Red Hat 14.2.1-7)
Systems tested:
- LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A
NICs:
- Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
- Firmware Version: 16.35.2000
- OFED 25.07-0.9.7
Regards,
Riley Fletcher
Quoted 16 lines · Thomas Monjalon
A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v25.11-rc3There are 98 new patches in this snapshot.
Release notes:
https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_25_11.htmlPlease test and report new issues on https://bugs.dpdk.org
The next release candidate (-rc4) is planned for Monday 24. Patches and reviews for examples, tooling and documentation are welcome.
Thank you everyone
DPDK release candidate 25.11-rc3 testing report
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>
Send: Wednesday, 19 November 2025 at 6:51
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: DPDK release candidate 25.11-rc3A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v25.11-rc3There are 98 new patches in this snapshot.
Release notes:
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https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_25_11.htmlPlease test and report new issues on https://bugs.dpdk.org
The next release candidate (-rc4) is planned for Monday 24. Patches and reviews for examples, tooling and documentation are welcome.
Thank you everyone
The following is a list of tests that we ran on NVIDIA hardware this release:
Note: all tests are passed, and no critical issues were found.
- 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 testing.
- VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion tests.
- Checksum and TSO tests.
- ptype reporting.
- link status interrupt using the example application link_status_interrupt tests.
- Interrupt mode using l3fwd-power example application tests.
- Multi process testing using multi process example applications.
- Hardware LRO tests.
- Buffer Split.
- Tx scheduling.
Kindest Regards,
Wael Abualrub
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2025 12:51 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: DPDK release candidate 25.11-rc3A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v25.11-rc3There are 98 new patches in this snapshot.
Release notes:
Quoted 9 lines
https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_25_11.htmlPlease test and report new issues on https://bugs.dpdk.org
The next release candidate (-rc4) is planned for Monday 24. Patches and reviews for examples, tooling and documentation are welcome.
Thank you everyone
Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk25.11-rc3 all validation test done. found one new issue.
New issue:
1. ice_iavf_rx_timestamp: testpmd start port failed -> Has fix patch
* Build & CFLAG compile: cover the build test with latest GCC/Clang version on the following OS(all passed)
- Ubuntu25.04/Ubuntu24.04.3
- RHEL9.6/RHEL10
- Fedora42
- FreeBSD14.3
- SUSE15.6
- OpenAnolis8.10
- OpenEuler24.04-SP2
- AzureLinux3.0
* Function tests: All test done and found one issue.
- ICE-(E810, E825, E830, E2100) PF/VF: test scenarios including basic/RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/mac_filter/VLAN/VXLAN/RSS/Switch/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
- i40E-(XXV710, X722) PF/VF: test scenarios including basic/RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/mac_filter/VLAN/VXLAN/RSS, etc.
- IXGBE-(E610) PF/VF: test scenarios including basic/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/mac_filter/VLAN/VXLAN/RSS, etc.
- IGC-(i226) PF: test scenarios including basic/RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/mac_filter/VLAN/VXLAN/RSS, etc.
- IGB-(i350) PF: test scenarios including basic/RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/mac_filter/VLAN/VXLAN/RSS, 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 9.0, 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/E2100 NIC Performance
Regards,
Xu, Hailin