Re: [dpdk-stable] 16.11.3 (LTS) patches review and test

[Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 06:29:02PM +0100, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> On 08/18/2017 11:45 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 16.11.3. Please
> > help review and test. The planned date for the final release is 30th,
> > Aug. Before that, please let me know 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.
> > 
> >         --yliu
> > 
> 
> Hi Yuanhan,
> 
> I think this one should go in too, as OVS hits this and writes back the
> wrong watermark value to the shared register which can cause problems
> for other ports. I've applied and tested it with DPDK 16.11.
> 
> commit 0e61ab56e01655f02bfe4e6249e032e864b0f5dd
> Author: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
> Date:   Thu Aug 10 18:48:07 2017 +0800
> 
>     net/i40e: fix flow control watermark mismatch
> 
>     Flow control watermark is not read out correctly,
>     that may cause an application who not intend to change
>     watermark but does change it with a rte_eth_dev_flow_ctrl_set
>     call right after rte_eth_dev_flow_ctrl_get.

Weird, I couldn't find this commit:

    $ git show 0e61ab56e01655f02bfe4e6249e032e864b0f5dd
    fatal: bad object 0e61ab56e01655f02bfe4e6249e032e864b0f5dd

	--yliu