[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] 19.11.4 patches review and test

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 27-Aug-20 11:37 AM, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 10:47 +0100, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
>> On 26-Aug-20 10:50 AM, Luca Boccassi wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2020-08-26 at 02:30 +0000, Chen, BoX C wrote:
>>>> Hi Luca,
>>>> Update LTS 19.11.4 test result for Intel part. No new issue is found except known issues.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>>> * Intel(R) Testing
>>>>
>>>> # Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
>>>>    * PF(i40e):Passed
>>>>       - Exception message when starting testpmd for testing external memory. It has been fixed on 20.05.patch link: http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/66041/
>>>
>>> Anatoly, is it safe to backport this patch to 19.11? It applies and
>>> builds cleanly when cherry-picked:
>>>
>>> d1c7c0cdf7ba ("vfio: map contiguous areas in one go")
>>
>> Hi Luca,
>>
>> Yes, it should be safe - at least i'm not aware of any breakages ever
>> being reported so far. Thanks!
> 
> Could you please double-check that there's no other patch/change that
> depends on it/that it depends on and is missing from 19.11.4-rc1? Given
> we wouldn't redo the full regression run, we need to be careful
> 

I'm positive that it's self-contained. It's just a different way of 
iterating through an array :)

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Thanks,
Anatoly