Re: 16.11.8 (LTS) patches review and test

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>]

On Mon, 2018-08-27 at 17:17 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-08-23 at 09:55 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > On Mon, 2018-08-13 at 19:21 +0100, luca.boccassi@gmail.com wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > Here is a list of patches targeted for LTS release 16.11.8.
> > > Please
> > > help review and test. The planned date for the final release is
> > > August
> > > the 23rd.
> > > Before that, please shout if anyone has objections with these
> > > patches being applied.
> > > 
> > > Also for the companies committed to running regression tests,
> > > please run the tests and report any issue before the release
> > > date.
> > > 
> > > A release candidate tarball can be found at:
> > > 
> > >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v16.11.8-rc1
> > > 
> > > These patches are located at branch 16.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> > >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > > Luca Boccassi
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Regression tests from Intel have highlighted a possible issue with
> > the
> > changes (unidentified as of now), so while investigation is in
> > progress
> > we decided to postpone the release to Monday the 27th to be on the
> > safe
> > side.
> > Apologies for any issues this might cause.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Unfortunately triaging is still in progress, so it's better to
> postpone
> again, to Wednesday the 29th of August.
> Apologies again for any issues due to this delay.

Hello all,

I've pushed an -rc2 with the following additional changes:

Luca Boccassi (1):
      Revert "net/i40e: fix packet count for PF"

Radu Nicolau (3):
      net/null: add MAC address setting fake operation
      test/virtual_pmd: add MAC address setting fake op
      test/bonding: assign non-zero MAC to null devices

Radu, I cherry-picked the following 3 patches that you got merged in
18.02 as they are necessary to fix bonding regression tests from Intel:

c5ac7748fd6bfd86b6fb4432b6792733cf32c94c
c23fc36284e26fca9b52641118ad76a4da99d7af
e8df563bac263e55b7dd9d45a00417aa92ef66cb

Qi, I have reverted the following patch that was backported to 16.11.4
as it breaks a Fortville regression test from Intel:

4bf705a7d74b0b4c1d82ad0821c43e32be15a5e5.

Marco, is there any chance you've got time today to re-run your tests?
These changes in rc2 have been blessed by Intel and AT&T, so if it
works for you as well I can then release later tonight.

A release candidate tarball can be found at:

    https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v16.11.8-rc2

These patches are located at branch 16.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
    https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/

Thanks!

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi