[dpdk-stable] please help backporting some patches to stable release 20.11.1

[Luca Boccassi]

On Tue, 2021-02-09 at 10:39 +0000, luca.boccassi at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi commit authors (and maintainers),
> 
> I didn't apply following commits from DPDK main to 20.11
> stable branch, as conflicts or build errors occur.
> 
> Can authors check your patches in the following list and either:
>     - Backport your patches to the 20.11 branch, or
>     - Indicate that the patch should not be backported
> 
> Please do either of the above by 02/16/21.
> 
> 
> Some notes on stable backports:
> 
> A backport should contain a reference to the DPDK main branch commit
> in it's commit message in the following fashion:
>     [ upstream commit <commit's dpdk main 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 20.11] foo/bar: fix baz
> 
> With git format-patch, this can be achieved by appending the parameter:
>     --subject-prefix='PATCH 20.11'
> 
> Send the backported patch to "stable at dpdk.org" but not "dev at dpdk.org".
> 
> FYI, branch 20.11 is located at tree:
>    https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Luca Boccassi
> 
> ---
> c27e64ee3e  Chengchang Tang  net/hns3: fix stats flip overflow
> 7f2a320df9  Huisong Li       net/hns3: fix query order of link status and link info
> 00984de533  Viacheslav Ovsiienko net/mlx5: fix Tx queue size created with DevX

Hi Xueming,

Could you please check with Viacheslav if this net/mlx5 backport is
needed and if it is going to be sent soon, or if I should proceed
without it?

Thanks!

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi