Request for 3.16.1

[rradhara-eng]

I'm from AMD and I have used the patch from here ( #1708 ) to solve a performance drop observed on one of our 10G ethernet solutions.

The issue was observed with 3.16 version of iperf. I see that this fix is merged to 3.17. Given the performance impact, could you please consider providing a 3.16.1 release so that we can pull it into our builds?

[davidBar-On]

Why can't you use the latest uperf3 release that includes this fix?
Also, if only this fix is needed, can you build iperf3 using PR #1708 code?.

[rradhara-eng]

Hi @davidBar-On,

Thanks for your response.

I did cherry pick that PR and it works. But for the proper release (we are using Yocto LTS), the current recipe is for 3.16. We can however pick tags like 3.16.x. Since this is a valid fix to improve performance, can you please consider doing a tag? This should be useful both for us and other users. Please do let me know your thoughts.

[davidBar-On]

can you please consider doing a tag? This should be useful both for us and other users.

Hi @rradhara-eng, I am not from the iperf3 team, so I cannot help with this. Hopefully someone from the iperf3 maintenance team can respond. The only thing I can suggest is to somehow upgrade to the latest version (3.18).

[bmah888]

@rradhara-eng if you can update to a tag, why can't you just update to the 3.18 tag? (I think you would need 3.18, not 3.17, to get the fix for #1708)

Doing a point-fix for this needs a branch, merge, tag, build, tests, etc., all of which need to be done by our small and very-time-constrained development team. In general we want users to be running the latest official releases anyway.