[dpdk-stable] please help backporting some patches to LTS release 18.11.9

[Kevin Traynor]

On 17/06/2020 08:47, Ruifeng Wang wrote:
> 1) 27fb5dd285  Ruifeng Wang     test: skip some subtests in no-huge mode
> This one is already in 18.11 branch: https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=18.11&id=17ee228d0a1f677a92b86c39cccf4a19d7e75c21
> 

Indeed, thanks. I must have rebased but forgot to drop from the failed list.

> 2) bade47a757  Gavin Hu         net/i40e: relax barrier in Tx
> This one can be applied after prerequisite 3779a64ecd is backported.
> 3779a64ecd was not backported to stable may be because it was not a bug fix. But it should be.
> Is it possible to backport 3779a64ecd to stable firstly?
> Replied this for Gavin.
> 

These look to be only small performance optimizations and are changing
the behaviour for other architectures, not only ARM. So I prefer not to
take them to 18.11 branch at this point as they are not fixing anything.

thanks,
Kevin.

> /Ruifeng
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 11:03 PM
>> To: dpdk stable <stable at dpdk.org>
>> Cc: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>; Ajit Khaparde
>> (ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com) <ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com>;
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>> Jiang <yux.jiang at intel.com>; Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian at huawei.com>
>> Subject: please help backporting some patches to LTS release 18.11.9
>>
>> Hi commit authors (and maintainers),
>>
>> I didn't apply following commits from DPDK master to 18.11 LTS branch, as
>> conflicts or build errors occur. Note, it may be dependent on another patch
>> below that has not been applied.
>>
>> Can authors check your patches in the following list and either:
>>     - Backport your patches to the 18.11 branch, or
>>     - Indicate that the patch should not be backported
>>
>> Please do either of the above by 06/19/20. If you need more time, please let
>> me know.
>>
>> Some notes on LTS backports:
>>
>> A backport should contain a reference to the DPDK master branch commit in
>> it's commit message in the following fashion:
>>     [ upstream commit <commit's dpdk master branch SHA-1 checksum> ]
>>
>> For example:
>>     https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-
>> stable/commit/?h=18.11&id=d90e6ae6f936ecdc2fd3811ff9f26aec7f3c06eb
>>
>> When sending the backported patch, please indicate the target branch in the
>> subject line, as we have multiple branches, for example:
>>     [PATCH 18.11] foo/bar: fix baz
>>
>> With git format-patch, this can be achieved by appending the parameter:
>>     --subject-prefix='PATCH 18.11'
>>
>> Send the backported patch to "stable at dpdk.org" but not "dev at dpdk.org".
>>
>> FYI, branch 18.11 is located at tree:
>>    https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Kevin.
>>
>> ---
>> 96477b5dd5  Ajit Khaparde    net/bnxt: fix allocation of COS queue info
>> 205b742952  Ajit Khaparde    net/bnxt: fix allocation of LED config info
>> 986fa3ba83  Ajit Khaparde    net/bnxt: fix allocation of link info struct
>> e8fe0e067b  Ajit Khaparde    net/bnxt: fix allocation of PF info struct
>> ecb160456a  Alexander Kozyrev net/mlx5: add device parameter for MPRQ
>> stride size
>> 775fc97b01  Alexander Kozyrev net/mlx5: add multi-segment packets in
>> MPRQ mode bd0d5930bf  Alexander Kozyrev net/mlx5: enable MPRQ multi-
>> stride operations a24431dffb  Alexander Kozyrev net/mlx5: improve logging
>> of MPRQ selection
>> 5330b04297  Alvin Zhang      net/iavf: fix link speed
>> 6d3f9917ff  Anatoly Burakov  eal: fix memory config allocation for multi-
>> process
>> b149a70642  Anatoly Burakov  eal/freebsd: add config reattach in secondary
>> process
>> 6080796f65  Anatoly Burakov  mem: make base address hint OS specific
>> 4236694f0a  Anatoly Burakov  mem: preallocate VA space in no-huge mode
>> be048a1aaa  Andrew Rybchenko net/virtio: fix descriptor addressed in Tx
>> 1526dd0532  Andrew Rybchenko net/virtio: fix Tx checksum offloads
>> 29fdc5bf45  Apeksha Gupta    test/crypto: fix statistics case
>> 90ecace4f6  Archana Muniganti examples/fips_validation: fix parsing of
>> algorithms ae08c73e6f  Bernard Iremonger net/i40e: fix flow director
>> initialisation
>> 7d0c2354a5  David Marchand   test: load drivers when required
>> dcd05da0ae  Dekel Peled      app/testpmd: fix GENEVE flow item
>> 92818d839e  Dekel Peled      net/mlx5: fix match on empty VLAN item in DV
>> mode
>> ea81c1b816  Dekel Peled      net/mlx5: fix NVGRE matching
>> ff55182ce3  Dekel Peled      net/mlx5: fix VLAN flow action with wildcard VLAN
>> item
>> 9c4971e523  Dekel Peled      net/mlx5: update VLAN and encap actions
>> validation
>> 036d82365e  Fady Bader       mempool: remove inline functions from export
>> list
>> f6e63e59e7  Ferruh Yigit     app/testpmd: fix global variable multiple
>> definitions
>> ec8615607f  Gagandeep Singh  crypto/dpaa_sec: fix IOVA conversions
>> bade47a757  Gavin Hu         net/i40e: relax barrier in Tx
>> 9d10f53e40  Harman Kalra     test/metrics: fix second run
>> 05817057fa  Igor Chauskin    net/ena: fix indication of bad L4 Rx checksums
>> f6752f660f  Igor Romanov     net/sfc: set priority of created filters to manual
>> 48f9faddc6  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: fix MAC address setting when port is
>> stopped
>> 86421846cc  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: fix storing MAC address twice
>> bc75bdb60f  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: fix VNIC Rx queue count on VNIC free
>> a135e050ad  Konstantin Ananyev examples/ipsec-secgw: fix packet length
>> 06387be8ea  Matan Azrad      net/mlx5: fix encap/decap validation
>> 721c953018  Matan Azrad      net/mlx5: fix Rx scatter mode validation
>> 050bfe033c  Matan Azrad      net/mlx5: fix tunnel flow priority
>> 3ae4beb079  Maxime Coquelin  vhost: check log mmap offset and size
>> overflow
>> 00437823cb  Mohsin Shaikh    net/mlx5: use open/read/close for ib stats
>> query
>> 9e0d81c1a1  Ori Kam          net/mlx5: fix selection between encap and decap
>> 7392ad06f5  Pavan Nikhilesh  app/testpmd: use better randomness for Tx
>> split
>> d70a869db2  Phil Yang        net/ixgbe: fix link state timing on fiber ports
>> f0617163b8  Radu Bulie       mempool/dpaa2: report error on endless loop in
>> mbuf release
>> d256c73c11  Rahul Gupta      net/bnxt: fix memory leak during queue restart
>> 20cb28a0ec  Rahul Gupta      net/bnxt: fix Rx ring producer index
>> a60704d1ac  Rasesh Mody      net/qede: fix assignment of Rx/Tx handlers
>> efdda86bd4  Raslan Darawsheh doc: fix build issue in ABI guide
>> 207b1c813f  Reshma Pattan    test: fix build without ring PMD
>> 27fb5dd285  Ruifeng Wang     test: skip some subtests in no-huge mode
>> da7018ec29  Shougang Wang    net/i40e: fix queue region in RSS flow
>> 819d0d1d57  Tao Zhu          net/ixgbe: fix blocking system events
>> efa8c72f1e  Tao Zhu          net/ixgbe: fix link status inconsistencies
>> d68ab7a9f9  Tao Zhu          net/ixgbe: fix resource leak after thread exits
>> normally
>> 4448a202b6  Thomas Monjalon  eal: remove useless makefiles
>> e21492a517  Thomas Monjalon  net/mlx: fix overlinking with meson and glue
>> dlopen
>> 3acf107195  Viacheslav Ovsiienko common/mlx5: fix netlink buffer allocation
>> from stack
>> 7593cf1d35  Viacheslav Ovsiienko net/mlx5: fix legacy multi-packet write
>> session 150c9ac2df  Wei Hu (Xavier)  app/testpmd: update Rx offload after
>> setting MTU 2e02a2afff  Wei Hu (Xavier)  ethdev: fix VLAN offloads set if no
>> driver callback
>> be4ef2e0d0  Wei Zhao         net/i40e: fix flow director enabling
>> dcfbc594f7  Wei Zhao         net/iavf: fix queue interrupt for ice
>> 24cb500c17  Yunjian Wang     net/tap: fix mbuf double free when writev fails
>> 24cb500c17  Yunjian Wang     net/tap: fix mbuf double free when writev fails
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