please help backporting some patches to stable release 19.11.11

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 9:12 AM Ding, Xuan <xuan.ding at intel.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Christian,
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> >Sent: Friday, December 3, 2021 2:27 PM
> >To: Ding, Xuan <xuan.ding at intel.com>
> >Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> >Subject: Re: please help backporting some patches to stable release 19.11.11
> >
> >On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 3:07 AM Ding, Xuan <xuan.ding at intel.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Christian,
> >>
> >> The two fix patches from mine aimed at DPDK version after 19.11. So they
> >only need to be backported in 20.11.
> >> 04bcc80204  Xuan Ding        net/virtio: fix indirect descriptor reconnection
> >> ad6f01945a  Xuan Ding        net/virtio: fix avail descriptor ID
> >
> >Thank you,
> >they both refer to fix a patch that in turn fixes issues that existed before 19.11.
> >Hence they came into the candidate list.
> >
> >For the second one you are right, this isn't present, but 04bcc80204 refers to
> >fix 8c1df884.
> >And 8c1df884 is in 19.11.x as:
> >
> >commit 8c1df8846b15bf87beee2907dd9ecb5d5adaca1d
> >Author: Marvin Liu <yong.liu at intel.com>
> >Date:   Mon Sep 28 16:20:51 2020 +0800
> >
> >    net/virtio: fix packed ring indirect descricptors setup
> >
> >    [ upstream commit 381f39ebb78a35d8dcc2d4500419644c7de5400f ]
> >
> >
> >So do we really not need/want it?
>
> Thanks for your confirmation.
> For 04bcc80204, I will send out a patch.

Thanks in advance


> BTW, ad6f01945a refers to b473061b0e1d ("net/virtio: fix indirect descriptors in packed datapaths").
> Why hasn't this patch been backported in 19.11?

It was identified way back in time in
http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2020-November/026232.html

But it didn't apply and no one bothered backporting.
Please feel free to provide backports for both b473061b0e1d +
ad6f01945a if you want to get them into 19.11.11.

> Regards,
> Xuan
>
> >
> >> Thanks for your reminder.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Xuan
> >
> >
> >--
> >Christian Ehrhardt
> >Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
> >Canonical Ltd



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Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd