[dpdk-stable] It there plan to queue this patch to stable release 19.11.9

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 5:01 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
>
> 31/05/2021 11:21, Christian Ehrhardt:
> > On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 5:13 AM Yu, DapengX <dapengx.yu at intel.com> wrote:
> > > This patch: http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-March/029204.html
> >
> > This patch actually was never merged in the main branch
> > On main we have:
> >
> > commit f93949c3afc39b0f610e0661f7baa21060ada13a
> > Author: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang at intel.com>
> > net/ice: fix memory leak on dev closed
> >
> > This one also refers to bd513ece3c40 for a fix and was in 19.11 already.
> > Then quite similar to what you referred to, but a more generic (all
> > drivers) fix on the main branch
> >
> > commit 30410493759f4bae3f65497737661e27b93c2d0e
> > Author: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> > drivers/net: check process type in close operation
> > See => https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk/commit/30410493759f4bae3f65497737661e27b93c2d0e
> >
> > This one was in 20.11 but not targeted for stable at dpdk.org
> >
> > The patch almost applies but since the change is mostly the same to
> > all drivers it seems backportable.
> >
> > Maybe if you could sync with Thomas if this (general) solution is
> > applicable and prepare the backport we can add it.
> > It is close as I wanted to call for RC1 already, but if done soon it
> > should be fine.
> > I'll hold back 19.11.9-RC1 another day to give this a chance to be
> > clarified until tomorrow.
> >
> > @Dapeng please talk to Thomas and consider providing a 19.11.9
> > backport of the fix that made it into the main branch.
> > @Thomas Monjalon was there a specific reason/prereq which made you not
> > targeting stable@ with the fix?
>
> It was not considered as a fix but a behaviour improvement :)
> I agree it could be backported.

FYI - by now it is backported and part of the WIP 19.11.9

>


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Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
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