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

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 8/21/2017 4:40 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> 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 at 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

The commit is in next-net. Not sure how to proceed, any idea?

> 
> 	--yliu
>