DPDK release candidate 26.07-rc4 testing report

Hi

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> From: Thomas Monjalon [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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> Subject: DPDK release candidate 26.07-rc4

> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v26.07-rc4

> There are 48 new patches in this snapshot.

> Release notes:
> https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_26_07.html

> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.

> You may share some release validation results
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> and by adding tested hardware in the release notes.

> Only release notes changes are expected at this stage.
> There are some deprecation notices pending for review.

> This release cycle should be closed in few days.

> 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.


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

Kindest Regards,
Wael Abualrub