[dpdk-stable] please help backporting some patches to stable release 19.11.6

[Luca Boccassi]

Hi,

Ok, thanks for checking.

On Thu, 2020-11-12 at 09:19 +0000, Fu, Patrick wrote:
> Hi Luca,
> 
> For this patch:
> fb4b7a131c  Patrick Fu       vhost: fix guest/host physical address conversion
> 
> no need backport as the patch is target to fix a b-tree search bug, which is not in the 19.11 stable branch.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Patrick
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: luca.boccassi at gmail.com <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 3:06 AM
> > Cc: Johnson, Brian <brian.johnson at intel.com>; Xia, Chenbo
> > <chenbo.xia at intel.com>; Chengchang Tang <tangchengchang at huawei.com>;
> > Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>; Brandeburg, Jesse
> > <jesse.brandeburg at intel.com>; Ananyev, Konstantin
> > <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>; Lijun Ou <oulijun at huawei.com>; Matan
> > Azrad <matan at nvidia.com>; Maxime Coquelin
> > <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>; Nithin Dabilpuram
> > <ndabilpuram at marvell.com>; Fu, Patrick <patrick.fu at intel.com>; Zhang, Qi
> > Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>; Xueming Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>
> > Subject: please help backporting some patches to stable release 19.11.6
> > 
> > Hi commit authors (and maintainers),
> > 
> > I didn't apply following commits from DPDK main to 19.11
> > stable branch, as conflicts or build errors occur.
> > 
> > Can authors check your patches in the following list and either:
> >     - Backport your patches to the 19.11 branch, or
> >     - Indicate that the patch should not be backported
> > 
> > Please do either of the above by the 16th of November.
> > 
> > 
> > Some notes on stable backports:
> > 
> > A backport should contain a reference to the DPDK main branch commit
> > in it's commit message in the following fashion:
> >     [ upstream commit <commit's dpdk main branch SHA-1 checksum> ]
> > 
> > For example:
> >     https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-
> > stable/commit/?h=18.11&id=d90e6ae6f936ecdc2fd3811ff9f26aec7f3c06eb
> > 
> > When sending the backported patch, please indicate the target branch in the
> > subject line, as we have multiple branches, for example:
> >     [PATCH 19.11] foo/bar: fix baz
> > 
> > With git format-patch, this can be achieved by appending the parameter:
> >     --subject-prefix='PATCH 19.11'
> > 
> > Send the backported patch to "stable at dpdk.org" but not "dev at dpdk.org".
> > 
> > FYI, branch 19.11 is located at tree:
> >    https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Luca Boccassi
> > 
> > ---
> > 0e98d5e6d9  Chengchang Tang  net/hns3: fix packet type report in Rx
> > f9edada651  Chengchang Tang  net/hns3: fix Tx checksum outer header
> > prepare
> > fb6eb9009f  Chengchang Tang  net/hns3: fix Tx checksum with fixed header
> > length
> > ead06572bd  Jesse Brandeburg net/iavf: fix performance with writeback
> > policy
> > c59898131b  Maxime Coquelin  vhost: validate index in async API
> > 364eb0e466  Nithin Dabilpuram net/octeontx2: avoid per packet barrier with
> > multi segment
> > fb4b7a131c  Patrick Fu       vhost: fix guest/host physical address conversion
> > 1cbdad1bf2  Xueming Li       common/mlx5: get number of ports that can be
> > bonded