RE: please help backporting some patches to stable release 21.11.2

["McDaniel, Timothy" <timothy.mcdaniel@intel.com>]

Hi Kevin,

I'd be happy to help, but I'm not sure what the ask is here? 

Do I port the patch back to 21.11.2 and send it to you directly, or does it go to patchwork?

Thanks
Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
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> Subject: please help backporting some patches to stable release 21.11.2
> 
> Hi commit authors (and maintainers),
> 
> Despite being selected by the DPDK maintenance tool ./devtools/git-log-fixes.sh
> I didn't apply following commits from DPDK main to 21.11
> stable branch, as conflicts or build errors occur.
> 
> Can authors check your patches in the following list and either:
>     - Backport your patches to the 21.11 branch, or
>     - Indicate that the patch should not be backported
> 
> Please do either of the above by 07/01/22.
> 
> You can find the a temporary work-in-progress branch of the coming 21.11.2
> release at:
>     https://github.com/kevintraynor/dpdk-stable
> It is recommended to backport on top of that to minimize further conflicts or
> misunderstandings.
> 
> Some notes on stable backports:
> 
> A backport should contain a reference to the DPDK main branch commit
> in it's commit message in the following fashion:
>     [ upstream commit <commit's dpdk main branch SHA-1 checksum> ]
> 
> For example:
>     https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-
> stable/commit/?h=18.11&id=d90e6ae6f936ecdc2fd3811ff9f26aec7f3c06eb
> 
> When sending the backported patch, please indicate the target branch in the
> subject line, as we have multiple branches, for example:
>     [PATCH 21.11] foo/bar: fix baz
> 
> With git format-patch, this can be achieved by appending the parameter:
>     --subject-prefix='PATCH 21.11'
> 
> Send the backported patch to "stable@dpdk.org" but not "dev@dpdk.org".
> 
> FYI, branch 21.11 is located at tree:
>    https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> ---
> These commits have non-trivial conflicts while applying to 21.11 branch:
> 4c1a91b21f  Arek Kusztal     crypto/qat: fix cleanup function default behaviour
> 5b4d317d83  Arek Kusztal     crypto/qat: fix missing copy guards in asym mod
> d2fa2632a4  Dariusz Sosnowski net/mlx5: fix RSS hash types adjustment
> a31c9f970d  David Marchand   net/cnxk: fix crash in IPsec telemetry
> 6cef22dcfe  Harman Kalra     net/cnxk: fix PFC class disabling
> 6f065d1539  Li Zhang         vdpa/mlx5: fix maximum number of virtqs
> b2c5ff1bd9  Nithin Dabilpuram common/cnxk: fix mbox structs to avoid
> unaligned access
> 14124e48a3  Nithin Dabilpuram net/cnxk: fix hotplug detach for first device
> e2819fea94  Nithin Dabilpuram net/cnxk: fix multi-segment extraction in vwqe
> path
> 2e668c547f  Nithin Dabilpuram net/cnxk: fix roundup size with transport mode
> 417be15e5f  Peng Zhang       net/nfp: make sure MTU is never larger than mbuf
> size
> 694c75e8e3  Rahul Lakkireddy test/crypto: fix build with optimization=1
> c65e343c14  Stanislaw Kardach ci: enable C++ check for Arm and PPC
> f75dd6d3b1  Stanislaw Kardach config: fix C++ cross compiler for Arm and PPC
> 174f2f3512  Sunil Kumar Kori common/cnxk: add PFC support for VF
> 95af59b7ad  Yajun Wu         vdpa/mlx5: workaround VAR offset within page
> 
> These commits apply cleanly to 21.11 branch but cause build errors:
> aa802b1023  Bruce Richardson dma/idxd: fix AVX2 in non-datapath functions
> (^ commit causes build error on OBS CentOS7. No need to rework, can take
> when fix arives on DPDK main)
> 
> 14124e48a3  Nithin Dabilpuram net/cnxk: fix hotplug detach for first device
> 485df8847a  Chengwen Feng    ethdev: clarify null location case in xstats get
> 45a192b2b4  Stephen Hemminger sched: fix floating point math
> 87ecdd9e7f  Timothy McDaniel event/dlb2: improve enqueue efficiency