On Wed,  5 Feb 2025 11:45:09 +0100
Serhii Iliushyk <sil-plv@napatech.com> wrote:

> This patch set addresses fixing issues in the ntnic PMD driver.
>
> Changes in this patch:
>
> The issues detected by the Coverity Scan tool.
> The problems that were detected by the internal tests.
> Fix for Bug 1622: ntnic: using signals and threads:
> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fbugs.dpdk.org%2fshow_bug.cgi%3fid%3d1622&c=E,1,6udE5Jl1KN1y6YarjUq8xAU2C_RnMxvCsO4FC_7QGgRwCOMRCfX-0jEcl4wPapW-A2poKdj_W5XNKd_SMg4ohWp5E3FgSkpTr8VsSWWoOlne_dqw77o,&typo=1.
>   The handling of signals within the PMD driver was removed.
>   For manipulation with all threads dedicated EAL API
>     (rte_thread_create_internal_control) is used.
>   Product by design requires usage of threads inside PMD driver.

Do any of these patches need to be backported to stable versions of DPDK?

Hi Stephen, 

We do not need to backport these patches to the stable version. 

Please keep them only for the latest DPDK.

Thanks,

Serhii