[dpdk-stable] please help backporting some patches to stable release 20.11.1

[Xueming(Steven) Li]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
>Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2021 5:42 PM
>To: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>
>Cc: dpdk stable <stable at dpdk.org>
>Subject: Re: please help backporting some patches to stable release 20.11.1
>
>On Tue, 2021-02-09 at 10:39 +0000, luca.boccassi at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi commit authors (and maintainers),
>>
>> I didn't apply following commits from DPDK main to 20.11 stable
>> branch, as conflicts or build errors occur.
>>
>> Can authors check your patches in the following list and either:
>>     - Backport your patches to the 20.11 branch, or
>>     - Indicate that the patch should not be backported
>>
>> Please do either of the above by 02/16/21.
>>
>>
>> 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=d90e6ae6f936ecdc2f
>> d3811ff9f26aec7f3c06eb
>>
>> When sending the backported patch, please indicate the target branch
>> in the subject line, as we have multiple branches, for example:
>>     [PATCH 20.11] foo/bar: fix baz
>>
>> With git format-patch, this can be achieved by appending the parameter:
>>     --subject-prefix='PATCH 20.11'
>>
>> Send the backported patch to "stable at dpdk.org" but not "dev at dpdk.org".
>>
>> FYI, branch 20.11 is located at tree:
>>    https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Luca Boccassi
>>
>> ---
>> c27e64ee3e  Chengchang Tang  net/hns3: fix stats flip overflow
>> 7f2a320df9  Huisong Li       net/hns3: fix query order of link status and link info
>> 00984de533  Viacheslav Ovsiienko net/mlx5: fix Tx queue size created
>> with DevX
>
>Hi Xueming,
>
>Could you please check with Viacheslav if this net/mlx5 backport is needed and if it is going to be sent soon, or if I should proceed
>without it?

Confirmed with Slava, he will send tomorrow.

>
>Thanks!
>
>--
>Kind regards,
>Luca Boccassi