RE: please help backporting some patches to stable release 19.11.11

["Ding, Xuan" <xuan.ding@intel.com>]

Hi Christian,

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
>Sent: Friday, December 3, 2021 2:27 PM
>To: Ding, Xuan <xuan.ding@intel.com>
>Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>Subject: Re: please help backporting some patches to stable release 19.11.11
>
>On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 3:07 AM Ding, Xuan <xuan.ding@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> The two fix patches from mine aimed at DPDK version after 19.11. So they
>only need to be backported in 20.11.
>> 04bcc80204  Xuan Ding        net/virtio: fix indirect descriptor reconnection
>> ad6f01945a  Xuan Ding        net/virtio: fix avail descriptor ID
>
>Thank you,
>they both refer to fix a patch that in turn fixes issues that existed before 19.11.
>Hence they came into the candidate list.
>
>For the second one you are right, this isn't present, but 04bcc80204 refers to
>fix 8c1df884.
>And 8c1df884 is in 19.11.x as:
>
>commit 8c1df8846b15bf87beee2907dd9ecb5d5adaca1d
>Author: Marvin Liu <yong.liu@intel.com>
>Date:   Mon Sep 28 16:20:51 2020 +0800
>
>    net/virtio: fix packed ring indirect descricptors setup
>
>    [ upstream commit 381f39ebb78a35d8dcc2d4500419644c7de5400f ]
>
>
>So do we really not need/want it?

Thanks for your confirmation.
For 04bcc80204, I will send out a patch.
BTW, ad6f01945a refers to b473061b0e1d ("net/virtio: fix indirect descriptors in packed datapaths").
Why hasn't this patch been backported in 19.11?

Regards,
Xuan

>
>> Thanks for your reminder.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Xuan
>
>
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>Christian Ehrhardt
>Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
>Canonical Ltd