From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2086FA00E6 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 02:51:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CC0A324D; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 02:51:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com [148.163.156.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0773195 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 02:51:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pps.filterd (m0098396.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.27/8.16.0.27) with SMTP id x6B0lGwW115359; Wed, 10 Jul 2019 20:50:59 -0400 Received: from ppma03dal.us.ibm.com (b.bd.3ea9.ip4.static.sl-reverse.com [169.62.189.11]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2tnq4eftsw-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 10 Jul 2019 20:50:59 -0400 Received: from pps.filterd (ppma03dal.us.ibm.com [127.0.0.1]) by ppma03dal.us.ibm.com (8.16.0.27/8.16.0.27) with SMTP id x6B0nrQn007784; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 00:50:58 GMT Received: from b03cxnp08028.gho.boulder.ibm.com (b03cxnp08028.gho.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.130.20]) by ppma03dal.us.ibm.com with ESMTP id 2tjk96yyue-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 11 Jul 2019 00:50:58 +0000 Received: from b03ledav002.gho.boulder.ibm.com (b03ledav002.gho.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.130.233]) by b03cxnp08028.gho.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id x6B0ovvs60752140 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 11 Jul 2019 00:50:57 GMT Received: from b03ledav002.gho.boulder.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FCC8136051; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 00:50:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from b03ledav002.gho.boulder.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF34613605D; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 00:50:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from davids-mbp.usor.ibm.com (unknown [9.70.85.27]) by b03ledav002.gho.boulder.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 00:50:55 +0000 (GMT) To: "Burakov, Anatoly" , Thomas Monjalon Cc: Takeshi Yoshimura , dev@dpdk.org References: <20190607022830.2044-1-tyos@jp.ibm.com> <86842673.aHDJ4ghJsv@xps> <2134455.0e53NjsZy4@xps> <80114dab-b80a-9670-01af-735031f01c68@intel.com> From: David Christensen Message-ID: <1cfff58b-12bf-4b1c-9bf0-40ee44c7eb52@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:50:55 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <80114dab-b80a-9670-01af-735031f01c68@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:, , definitions=2019-07-10_08:, , signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1810050000 definitions=main-1907110008 Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vfio: retry creating sPAPR DMA window X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" >>>>> @Thomas Do we still support these older distros? >>>> >>>> If the kernel is not maintained, we don't support it. >>>> For most distros, Linux < 3.16 is not maintained. >>> >>> This is on kernel 3.13 (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS which according to Canonical's >>> published schedule [1] has stopped receiving even maintenance updates, >>> and is only updated for select customers). It was never an LTS kernel to >>> begin with, i think. >> >> So we can ignore this issue. >> > > It seems that it's also reproducible on Ubuntu 14.04 with kernel 3.19. > Which is not an upstream LTS kernel, but it's >3.16. > > It also looks like it may be an issue for us specifically, so i would > suggest reverting the patch for rc2 if the submitter/maintainers don't > come back and fix it. Just to confirm, these failures are on x86 builds, is that correct? Power 9 systems aren't supported by these older distros, Linux kernel 4.6 was the first kernel with Power 9 support. Dave