Re: Your next patch "net/virtio: fix an incorrect behavior..."

Re: Your next patch "net/virtio: fix an incorrect behavior..."

[Yuanhan Liu]

Thanks for the remind! I have reverted it.

	--yliu

On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 03:11:48PM +0800, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> Hi Yuanhan,
> 
> Thanks for Antonio's reminder!
> 
> Below patch may break vector Rx in some cases [1].
> 
> http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/commit/drivers/net/virtio?h=17.08&id=f4e455b776f61ec7fbdfb5dce6ba34ad9016689b
> 
> And I'm working on a fix for it. But as the deadline of 17.08.1
> is approaching, we don't have enough time to get the fix reviewed
> and tested by the community. I'm not sure, maybe we should remove
> it from the stable branch for 17.08.1 for now?
> 
> [1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-December/082983.html
> 
> Best regards,
> Tiwei Bie
> 
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 09:14:39PM +0800, Fischetti, Antonio wrote:
> > Thanks Tiwei,
> > one more thing. I saw they are going to backport some patches into 17.08.1
> > 
> > http://dev.dpdk.narkive.com/pX0IIwPl/dpdk-dev-17-08-1-patches-review-and-test
> > 
> > is your next fix related to the one reported as "net/virtio: flush Rx queues on start"?
> > 
> > If that's the case, should we flag this to Yuanhan Liu, just to be aware there's some work in progress?
> > 
> > 
> > Antonio
> >