Re: [dpdk-dev] 16.11.5 (LTS) patches review and test

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>]

On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 11:31 +0530, gowrishankar muthukrishnan wrote:
> Hi Luca,
> In powerpc to support i40e, we wish below patch be merged:
> 
> c3def6a8724 net/i40e: implement vector PMD for altivec
> 
> I have verified br-16.11 with the above commit (in cherry-pick, I
> needed 
> to remove release
> notes which was meant for 17.05 release which hope is fine here).
> Could you please merge the above.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gowrishankar

Hi,

This introduced a new PMD for that architecture, right?

If so I can merge the patch, at the following conditions:

1) It will be disabled by default
2) Support and help in backporting will have to be provided by the
authors for the remaining lifetime of 16.11

Is this OK for you?

> On Monday 26 February 2018 05:04 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 16.11.5. Please
> > help review and test. The planned date for the final release is
> > March
> > the 5th, pending results from regression tests.
> > Before that, please shout if anyone has objections with these
> > patches being applied.
> > 
> > These patches are located at branch 16.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> >      http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Luca Boccassi
> > 
> > ---
> > Ajit Khaparde (6):
> >        net/bnxt: support new PCI IDs
> >        net/bnxt: parse checksum offload flags
> >        net/bnxt: fix group info usage
> >        net/bnxt: fix broadcast cofiguration
> >        net/bnxt: fix size of Tx ring in HW
> >        net/bnxt: fix link speed setting with autoneg off
> > 
> > Akhil Goyal (1):
> >        examples/ipsec-secgw: fix corner case for SPI value
> > 
> > Alejandro Lucero (3):
> >        net/nfp: fix MTU settings
> >        net/nfp: fix jumbo settings
> >        net/nfp: fix CRC strip check behaviour
> > 
> > Anatoly Burakov (14):
> >        memzone: fix leak on allocation error
> >        malloc: protect stats with lock
> >        malloc: fix end for bounded elements
> >        vfio: fix enabled check on error
> >        app/procinfo: add compilation option in config
> >        test: register test as failed if setup failed
> >        test/table: fix uninitialized parameter
> >        test/memzone: fix wrong test
> >        test/memzone: handle previously allocated memzones
> >        usertools/devbind: remove unused function
> >        test/reorder: fix memory leak
> >        test/ring_perf: fix memory leak
> >        test/table: fix memory leak
> >        test/timer_perf: fix memory leak
> > 
> > Andriy Berestovskyy (1):
> >        keepalive: fix state alignment
> > 
> > Bao-Long Tran (1):
> >        examples/ip_pipeline: fix timer period unit
> > 
> > Beilei Xing (8):
> >        net/i40e: fix flow director Rx resource defect
> >        net/i40e: add warnings when writing global registers
> >        net/i40e: add debug logs when writing global registers
> >        net/i40e: fix multiple driver support issue
> >        net/i40e: fix interrupt conflict when using multi-driver
> >        net/i40e: fix Rx interrupt
> >        net/i40e: check multi-driver option parsing
> >        app/testpmd: fix flow director filter
> > 
> > Chas Williams (1):
> >        net/bonding: fix setting slave MAC addresses
> > 
> > David Harton (1):
> >        net/i40e: fix VF reset stats crash
> > 
> > Didier Pallard (1):
> >        net/virtio: fix incorrect cast
> > 
> > Dustin Lundquist (1):
> >        examples/exception_path: align stats on cache line
> > 
> > Erez Ferber (1):
> >        net/mlx5: fix MTU update
> > 
> > Ferruh Yigit (1):
> >        kni: fix build with kernel 4.15
> > 
> > Fiona Trahe (1):
> >        crypto/qat: fix null auth algo overwrite
> > 
> > Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan (2):
> >        eal/ppc: remove the braces in memory barrier macros
> >        eal/ppc: support sPAPR IOMMU for vfio-pci
> > 
> > Harish Patil (2):
> >        net/qede: fix to reject config with no Rx queue
> >        net/qede/base: fix VF LRO tunnel configuration
> > 
> > Hemant Agrawal (4):
> >        pmdinfogen: fix cross compilation for ARM big endian
> >        lpm: fix ARM big endian build
> >        net/i40e: fix ARM big endian build
> >        net/ixgbe: fix ARM big endian build
> > 
> > Hyong Youb Kim (1):
> >        net/enic: fix crash due to static max number of queues
> > 
> > Igor Ryzhov (1):
> >        net/i40e: fix flag for MAC address write
> > 
> > Ilya V. Matveychikov (2):
> >        eal: update assertion macro
> >        mbuf: cleanup function to get last segment
> > 
> > Jerin Jacob (3):
> >        net/thunderx: fix multi segment Tx function return
> >        test/crypto: fix missing include
> >        ethdev: fix data alignment
> > 
> > Jerry Lilijun (1):
> >        net/bonding: fix activated slave in 8023ad mode
> > 
> > Jianfeng Tan (3):
> >        vhost: fix crash
> >        net/vhost: fix log messages on create/destroy
> >        net/virtio-user: fix start with kernel vhost
> > 
> > Junjie Chen (3):
> >        vhost: fix dequeue zero copy with virtio1
> >        examples/vhost: fix sending ARP packet to self
> >        vhost: fix mbuf free
> > 
> > Kefu Chai (1):
> >        contigmem: fix build on FreeBSD 12
> > 
> > Konstantin Ananyev (1):
> >        eal/x86: use lock-prefixed instructions for SMP barrier
> > 
> > Liang-Min Larry Wang (1):
> >        net/ixgbe: improve link state check on VF
> > 
> > Marko Kovacevic (2):
> >        mk: support renamed Makefile in external project
> >        mk: fix external build
> > 
> > Markus Theil (2):
> >        igb_uio: fix IRQ disable on recent kernels
> >        igb_uio: fix MSI-X IRQ assignment with new IRQ function
> > 
> > Matan Azrad (2):
> >        app/testpmd: fix port index in RSS forward config
> >        app/testpmd: fix port topology in RSS forward config
> > 
> > Matej Vido (1):
> >        net/szedata2: fix check of mmap return value
> > 
> > Maxime Coquelin (1):
> >        net/virtio: fix resuming port with Rx vector path
> > 
> > Michael McConville (1):
> >        mem: fix mmap error check on huge page attach
> > 
> > Nicolas Dichtel (1):
> >        igb_uio: switch to new irq function for MSI-X
> > 
> > Nikhil Agarwal (2):
> >        examples/l3fwd-power: fix Rx without interrupt
> >        examples/l3fwd-power: fix frequency detection
> > 
> > Olivier Matz (11):
> >        ethdev: fix missing imissed counter in xstats
> >        net/i40e: fix VSI MAC filter on primary address change
> >        vhost: fix error code check when creating thread
> >        pdump: fix error check when creating/canceling thread
> >        mbuf: fix NULL freeing when debug enabled
> >        net/virtio: fix queue flushing with vector Rx enabled
> >        net/virtio: fix memory leak when reinitializing device
> >        net/virtio: fix typo in function name
> >        net/bnxt: fix Rx checksum flags
> >        net/bnxt: fix headroom initialization
> >        net/virtio: fix mbuf data offset for simple Rx
> > 
> > Pablo de Lara (3):
> >        ethdev: fix typo in functions comment
> >        test/pmd_perf: declare variables as static
> >        doc: fix outdated link to IPsec white paper
> > 
> > Phil Yang (2):
> >        test/memzone: fix NULL freeing
> >        test/memzone: fix freeing test
> > 
> > Qi Zhang (6):
> >        net/i40e: fix VLAN offload setting
> >        net/i40e/base: fix NVM lock
> >        net/i40e/base: fix link LED blink
> >        net/i40e/base: fix compile issue for GCC 6.3
> >        net/ixgbe: fix mailbox interrupt handler
> >        net/e1000: fix mailbox interrupt handler
> > 
> > Qiming Yang (1):
> >        net/ixgbe/base: add media type of fixed fiber
> > 
> > Radu Nicolau (2):
> >        examples/bond: check mbuf allocation
> >        net/bonding: check error of MAC address setting
> > 
> > Rafal Kozik (1):
> >        net/ena: do not set Tx L4 offloads in Rx path
> > 
> > Rasesh Mody (3):
> >        net/qede: fix few log messages
> >        net/qede: fix MTU set and max Rx pkt len usage
> >        net/qede: fix clearing of queue stats
> > 
> > Samuel Gauthier (1):
> >        net/virtio: fix Rx and Tx handler selection for ARM32
> > 
> > Shahaf Shuler (1):
> >        net/mlx5: fix missing RSS capability
> > 
> > Thomas Monjalon (1):
> >        ethdev: fix link autonegotiation value
> > 
> > Tiwei Bie (1):
> >        net/virtio: fix vector Rx flushing
> > 
> > Vipin Varghese (1):
> >        net/pcap: fix the NUMA id display in logs
> > 
> > Wei Zhao (1):
> >        net/ixgbe: fix reset error handling
> > 
> > Wenzhuo Lu (3):
> >        net/i40e: fix VF Rx interrupt enabling
> >        net/ixgbe: fix VF Rx interrupt enabling
> >        net/e1000: fix VF Rx interrupt enabling
> > 
> > Xiao Wang (1):
> >        net/fm10k: fix logical port delete
> > 
> > Yangchao Zhou (1):
> >        net/igb: fix Tx queue number assignment
> > 
> > Yanglong Wu (2):
> >        net/ixgbe: fix the failure of number of Tx queue check
> >        net/ixgbe: fix max queue number for VF
> > 
> > Yong Wang (1):
> >        crypto/qat: fix allocation check and leak
> > 
> > Yongseok Koh (2):
> >        app/testpmd: fix crash of txonly with multiple segments
> >        net/mlx5: fix deadlock of link status alarm
> > 
> > Zhiyong Yang (2):
> >        bus/pci: fix interrupt handler type
> >        examples/vhost: fix startup check
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi