[dpdk-stable] [Last Call] please help backporting some patches to LTS release 17.11.5

[Yongseok Koh]

Hi commit authors (and maintainers),

I planned to announce 17.11.5-rc2 today as no more patch/backport is seen on the
stable mailing list, but some people requested me to send out one more backport
request email for the last time. I have sent out backport request emails two
times and the attached list here is the remaining patches which I couldn't
manage to backport or the author had no response about yet.

I'll release 17.11.5-rc2 early next week. Please review the list and take one of
actions soon - a) say it's not needed for 17.11 LTS or b) send a backport like
described below.

FYI, branch 17.11 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

Also please mention the target LTS in the subject line, as we have more than one
at the same time, for example:

    [PATCH 17.11] foo/bar: fix baz

With git send-email, this can be achieved by appending the parameter:

    --subject-prefix='17.11'

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.

Yongseok

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80ad678ae  Ajit Khaparde    net/bnxt: fix MTU setting
6f93b2aa2  Ajit Khaparde    net/bnxt: remove excess log messages
5bf10cdb6  Ajit Khaparde    net/bnxt: set a VNIC as default only once
7712a1c66  Alejandro Lucero net/nfp: fix live MAC changes not supported
0c15f3c01  Ali Alnubani     net/mlx5: fix initialization of struct members
054d1be48  Beilei Xing      net/i40e: fix Rx instability with vector mode
3c4c76cf1  Damjan Marion    net/i40e: fix 25G AOC and ACC cable detection on XXV710
1db4d2330  Eric Zhang       net/virtio-user: check negotiated features before set
1fd1aa0c9  Fan Zhang        crypto/aesni_mb: fix queue pair free
5b4557ec8  Ferruh Yigit     app/testpmd: fix displaying RSS hash functions
a8b52dafe  Ferruh Yigit     doc: fix vhost library version in release notes
975735834  Ferruh Yigit     fix global variable issues
c06aee624  Ferruh Yigit     net/bnxt: fix uninitialized variable access
c8b506e4b  Ferruh Yigit     service: fix possible null access
ed42d1845  Gautam Dawar     net/sfc/base: fix out of bounds read when dereferencing sdup
dbdbc4a2e  Honnappa Nagarahalli hash: fix key store element alignment
0408f47ba  Ilya Maximets    net/ixgbe: fix busy polling while fiber link update
916193dda  Ilya Maximets    net/ixgbe: stop link setup alarm handler before start
705dced4a  Ilya Maximets    net/virtio: avoid annoying IOPL error log
0d7853a4d  Ilya Maximets    vhost-user: drop connection on message handling failures
13ffe6059  Jerin Jacob      doc: clarify VLAN and QinQ Tx offload prerequisite
c23e46594  Jerin Jacob      mbuf: fix offload flag name and list
9b47ed438  Joyce Kong       config: enable more than 128 cores for arm64
f394c63d2  Martin Harvey    net/sfc/base: fix PreFAST warnings because of unused return
74ee315e4  Maxime Coquelin  vhost: fix error handling when mem table gets updated
57b4d90b5  Maxime Coquelin  vhost: fix payload size of reply
ee1caebc4  Naga Suresh Somarowthu test/kni: check module dependency
5835b7d37  Pallantla Poornima test/kni: fix module miss fallback
55e411b30  Qi Zhang         bus/pci: fix resource mapping override
188d0bda2  Qi Zhang         net/i40e/base: fix partition id calculation for X722
54f4a22dc  Qi Zhang         net/i40e/base: improve the polling mechanism
b72611a27  Qi Zhang         net/i40e/base: read LLDP config area with correct endianness
853c78249  Rasesh Mody      net/bnx2x: fix dynamic logging
c1752a36b  Sachin Saxena    net/dpaa: fix link speed based on MAC type
1a611fdaf  Shahaf Shuler    net/mlx5: support missing counter in extended statistics
51fafb89a  Somnath Kotur    net/bnxt: get rid of ff pools and use VNIC info array
cc02c9771  Stephen Hemminger net/tap: fix file descriptor leak on error
66908eff1  Tiwei Bie        net/virtio: add missing supported features
f457e9007  Tiwei Bie        net/virtio-user: do not stop stopped device again
aa28ec5d2  Wenzhuo Lu       ethdev: fix invalid configuration after failure
a83090006  Xiaoxin Peng     net/bnxt: reduce polling interval for valid bit
ff30a020b  Yanglong Wu      net/ixgbe: fix TDH register write
2d28bb5dd  Yipeng Wang      hash: remove unnecessary pause
d31c84443  Zhirun Yan       net/avf: fix Tx offload mask