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

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 11:07 +0530, gowrishankar muthukrishnan wrote:
> On Monday 05 March 2018 03:42 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Yes, please go ahead.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gowrishankar

Applied and pushed to dpdk-stable/16.11.

> > > 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
> > > > 
> > > > 
> 
> 

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi