patch 'net/i40e: fix secondary process Rx path selection' has been queued to stable release 25.11.1

[Kevin Traynor]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 25.11.1

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 03/23/26. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Also note that after the patch there's a diff of the upstream commit vs the
patch applied to the branch. This will indicate if there was any rebasing
needed to apply to the stable branch. If there were code changes for rebasing
(ie: not only metadata diffs), please double check that the rebase was
correctly done.

Queued patches are on a temporary branch at:
https://github.com/kevintraynor/dpdk-stable

This queued commit can be viewed at:
https://github.com/kevintraynor/dpdk-stable/commit/04b3dee32d31ec0fb25ec0f8ec84577f4ee38632

Thanks.

Kevin

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>From 04b3dee32d31ec0fb25ec0f8ec84577f4ee38632 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus at intel.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:49:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] net/i40e: fix secondary process Rx path selection

[ upstream commit 6662ed2481885b9e27052d02f67f4bd3caedd9d0 ]

Commit 258f346f5d5e ("net/i40e: use same Rx path across processes")
changed the way that secondary processes selected their Rx burst
function. Instead of letting secondary processes select their own
function, they now used the function selected by the primary process.
However, the primary process only selects the function at device start,
so if the primary process hadn't started the device by the time the
secondary process was selecting its Rx burst function, the secondary
process would not select the correct function.

This commit addresses this issue by allowing the secondary process to
select the path if the device has not been started yet.

Fixes: 258f346f5d5e ("net/i40e: use same Rx path across processes")

Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus at intel.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c
index 255414dd03..885205cb6e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c
@@ -3429,6 +3429,6 @@ i40e_set_rx_function(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 	enum rte_vect_max_simd rx_simd_width = i40e_get_max_simd_bitwidth();
 
-	/* The primary process selects the rx path for all processes. */
-	if (rte_eal_process_type() != RTE_PROC_PRIMARY)
+	/* If the device has started the function has already been selected. */
+	if (dev->data->dev_started)
 		goto out;
 
-- 
2.53.0

---
  Diff of the applied patch vs upstream commit (please double-check if non-empty:
---
--- -	2026-03-19 10:01:07.453785536 +0000
+++ 0011-net-i40e-fix-secondary-process-Rx-path-selection.patch	2026-03-19 10:01:07.063331264 +0000
@@ -1 +1 @@
-From 6662ed2481885b9e27052d02f67f4bd3caedd9d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From 04b3dee32d31ec0fb25ec0f8ec84577f4ee38632 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
@@ -5,0 +6,2 @@
+[ upstream commit 6662ed2481885b9e27052d02f67f4bd3caedd9d0 ]
+
@@ -19 +20,0 @@
-Cc: stable at dpdk.org
@@ -28 +29 @@
-index ffb303158b..d189ba263b 100644
+index 255414dd03..885205cb6e 100644
@@ -31 +32 @@
-@@ -3002,6 +3002,6 @@ i40e_set_rx_function(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
+@@ -3429,6 +3429,6 @@ i40e_set_rx_function(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)