[dpdk-stable] please help backporting some patches to LTS release 16.11.5

[Tan, Jianfeng]

Hi Luca,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: luca.boccassi at gmail.com [mailto:luca.boccassi at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2018 3:14 AM
> To: dpdk stable
> Cc: Ajit Khaparde; Burakov, Anatoly; Yigit, Ferruh; Trahe, Fiona; Harish Patil;
> Hemant Agrawal; Jerin Jacob; Jia He; Tan, Jianfeng; Ananyev, Konstantin; Yao,
> Lei A; Matan Azrad; Nelio Laranjeiro; Olivier Matz; Rasesh Mody; Santosh
> Shukla; Shahaf Shuler; Thomas Monjalon; Bie, Tiwei; Xueming Li; Yong Wang;
> Yuanhan Liu
> Subject: please help backporting some patches to LTS release 16.11.5
> 
> Hi commit authors (and maintainers),
> 
> I didn't manage to apply following commits from upstream to stable branch
> 16.11: conflict happens. I'm wondering can the authors check the following
> list and backport those patches belong to you?
> 
> FYI, branch 16.11 is located at tree:
>    git://dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
> 
> It'd be great if you could do that in one or two weeks. Also, please add a
> heading line like below before the commit log body:
>     [ backported from upstream commit xxx ]
> 
> Example: http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-
> stable/commit/?h=16.07&id=c4831394c7d1944d8ec27d52c22997f20d19718e
> 
> Please let me know if you have any comments, say, need more time, or it's
> worthless to packport it. And please send it to "stable at dpdk.org", but not
> "dev at dpdk.org".
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Luca Boccassi
> 
> ---
> dbcabb69e  Ajit Khaparde    net/bnxt: fix number of pools for RSS
> 14ec04e1a  Anatoly Burakov  test/ring: fix memory leak
> dd28bc8c6  Harish Patil     net/qede: fix VF port creation sequence
> 96fd032ba  Hemant Agrawal   eal: prefix mbuf pool ops name with user
> defined
> 59a3cae53  Jia He           eal/arm64: remove the braces in memory barrier
> macros
> 0d6a8752a  Jianfeng Tan     net/virtio-user: fix crash as features change

We don't have to back-port the above fix if below commit is not back-ported.
commit 59fe5e17d930 ("vhost: propagate set features handling error")

Thanks,
Jianfeng

> 133b54779  Matan Azrad      ethdev: fix port data reset timing
> 8ee892a23  Matan Azrad      ethdev: fix port id allocation
> ce26be6ed  Rasesh Mody      net/qede: fix clearing of queue stats
> 9e3343051  Rasesh Mody      net/qede: fix MTU set and max Rx length
> e313ef4c2  Shahaf Shuler    net/mlx5: fix link state on device start
> 2ab9a9483  Thomas Monjalon  crypto/dpaa2_sec: fix build with GCC 7
> 0bf876008  Xueming Li       cmdline: avoid garbage in unused fields of parsed
> result
> 2acf7432a  Xueming Li       cmdline: fix dynamic tokens parsing
> 963898f0e  Yong Wang        crypto/qat: fix allocation check and leak