[dpdk-stable] please help backporting some patches to LTS release 17.11.4

[Luca Boccassi]

On Fri, 2018-07-27 at 10:42 +0300, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> [keeping in CC only e11411b52 related persons]
> [CC: Luca Boccassi]
> 
> Hi.
> I beleive that I was added to this thread as a reviewer of
> "e11411b52  Maxime Coquelin  vhost: fix missing increment of log
> cache count".
> 
> Looking at the current dpdk-stable/17.11 I see that the patch could
> not be
> applied because it fixes issue introduced by another patch
> c16915b87109 ("vhost: improve dirty pages logging performance") that
> doesn't
> exist in this branch. OTOH, this patch exists in stable 16.11.
> So, I have a question: Is there any reason why c16915b87109 was
> backported
> to 16.11 but not to 17.11 ?
> 
> P.S. I don't feel that I should backport e11411b52 myself, but I can
> do that
>      if author/maintainers are too busy. Please, let me know in that
> case.
>      Regarding 16.11, to backport e11411b52 you only need to change
> the
>      destination file,because related code placed in
>      lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c instead of
> lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h.
> 
> Best regards, Ilya Maximets.

Hi Ilya,

Thanks for the hint w.r.t. 16.11, I have now applied and pushed the
patch to dpdk-stable/16.11.

> On 27.07.2018 05:40, Yongseok Koh wrote:
> > Hi commit authors (and maintainers),
> > 
> > I didn't manage to apply following commits from upstream to stable
> > branch
> > 17.11: conflict happens. I'm wondering can the authors check the
> > following
> > list and backport those patches belong to you?
> > 
> > FYI, branch 17.11 is located at tree:
> >    git://dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
> > 
> > It'd be great if you could do that in one or two weeks. Also,
> > please add a
> > heading line like below before the commit log body:
> >     [ backported from upstream commit xxx ]
> > 
> > Example: http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=16.07&id=c483
> > 1394c7d1944d8ec27d52c22997f20d19718e
> > 
> > Also please mention the target LTS in the subject line, as we have
> > more than one
> > at the same time, for example:
> > 
> >     [PATCH 17.11] foo/bar: fix baz
> > 
> > With git send-email, this can be achieved by appending the
> > parameter:
> > 
> >     --subject-prefix='17.11'
> > 
> > Please let me know if you have any comments, say, need more time,
> > or it's
> > worthless to packport it. And please send it to "stable at dpdk.org",
> > but not
> > "dev at dpdk.org".
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Yongseok
> > 
> > ---
> > 422515b9a  Adrien Mazarguil app/testpmd: fix crash when attaching a
> > device
> > 66f2ac0f8  Adrien Mazarguil net/mlx4: fix minor resource leak
> > during init
> > 0cc1fcdeb  Ajit Khaparde    net/bnxt: check filter type before
> > clearing it
> > 6a9360963  Ajit Khaparde    net/bnxt: fix clear port stats
> > 3c2e87c10  Ajit Khaparde    net/bnxt: fix close operation
> > 90362583e  Ajit Khaparde    net/bnxt: fix incorrect IO address
> > handling in Tx
> > 812bb2087  Andrew Rybchenko net/sfc: handle unknown L3 packet class
> > in EF10 event parser
> > 2a4ed7233  Damjan Marion    net/i40e: do not reset device info data
> > 64cb90f88  Fiona Trahe      crypto/qat: fix checks for 3GPP algo
> > bit params
> > 2a7e3d546  Hyong Youb Kim   net/enic: do not overwrite admin Tx
> > queue limit
> > e11411b52  Maxime Coquelin  vhost: fix missing increment of log
> > cache count
> > 79d098921  Moti Haimovsky   net/mlx5: fix build with old kernels
> > c44fbc7cc  Nelio Laranjeiro net/mlx5: clean-up developer logs
> > 179c7e893  Pavan Nikhilesh  mempool/octeontx: fix pool to aura
> > mapping
> > 196e9a486  Qi Zhang         eal: fix hotplug add and remove
> > 9f32c7e7e  Rafal Kozik      net/ena: change memory type
> > 46916aa17  Rafal Kozik      net/ena: check pointer before memset
> > 41e59028d  Rafal Kozik      net/ena: set link speed as none
> > 3abe17195  Rahul Lakkireddy net/cxgbe: fix Rx channel map and queue
> > type
> > 1fc3afdf7  Rasesh Mody      doc: update qede management firmware
> > guide
> > c6dd1eb8a  Rasesh Mody      net/qede: fix default extended VLAN
> > offload config
> > a16aef523  Rasesh Mody      net/qede: fix for devargs
> > e46821e9f  Shahaf Shuler    net/mlx5: separate generic tunnel TSO
> > from the standard one
> > 496f15c2c  Shahed Shaikh    net/qede: fix incorrect link status
> > update
> > c7641841a  Shahed Shaikh    net/qede: fix unicast MAC address
> > handling in VF
> > 82dbef2c8  Somnath Kotur    net/bnxt: revert reset of L2 filter id
> > 0989161b2  Tiwei Bie        vhost: release locks on RARP packet
> > failure
> > b2a4a69f7  Xiaoxin Peng     net/bnxt: fix Tx with multiple mbuf
> > 
> > 

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi