Merging upstream branch-2.17 [RH git: bf382f68d4]
dpif-upcall: Wait for valid hw flow stats before applying min-revalidate-pps.

Merging upstream branch-2.17 [RH git: 04b7f28f9f]
traffic: Fix conntrack test cases which are failing with af_xdp.

Merging upstream branch-2.17 [RH git: b12915ee23]
windows: Add checking when creating netdev with system type on Windows
dpif-upcall: Include hardware offloaded flows in total flows.
dpif-upcall: Reset ukey's last stats value if the datapath changed.

Merging upstream branch-2.17 [RH git: 3da76b1dd5]
creation of tunnel backing interfaces on restart.
actions: Correct typo in ovs-actions man page.
ipfix: Use per-domain template timeouts.
dpif-upcall: Use last known stats ukey stats on revalidate missed dp flows.

redhat: add a workaround for meson [RH git: 39c6e2a48b]
datapath-rhel-8 is aligned to RHEL 8.0, with an
j) from _smp_mflags that was present in RHEL 8.0.
off-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>

Merging upstream branch-2.17 [RH git: 5ba5bb6bf9]
server: Fix handling of DNS name for listener configuration.

Merging upstream branch-2.17 [RH git: 10b09487e4]
offload-tc: If the flow has not been used, report it as such.
offload-tc: Conntrack ALGs are not supported with tc.
offload-tc: Fix tc conntrack force commit support.
dpif-upcall: New ukey needs to take the old ukey's dump seq.
offload-tc: Preserve tc statistics when flow gets modified.

ofproto-dpif-xlate: Optimize datapath action set by removing last clone action. [RH git: 45b5105d95]
up nine test cases as they where showing incorrect results.
dpif-xlate: Optimize datapath action set by removing last clone action.")
reversible actions are translated to data plane
dpif-xlate: Keep track of the last action")
dpif: Fix issue with non-reversible actions on a patch ports.")
by: Ales Musil <amusil@redhat.com>
off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>

Merging upstream branch-2.17 [RH git: 0310c25060]

Merging upstream branch-2.17 [RH git: 013a2a32fa]
offload-tc: Fix misaligned access to ct label.

Merging upstream branch-2.17 [RH git: 2a84e6d692]

Merging upstream branch-2.17 [RH git: 96d27acbea]

Merging upstream branch-2.17 [RH git: 309fe521e9]

Merging upstream branch-2.17 [RH git: a7b4835415]
portable '==' with test command.

Merging upstream branch-2.17 [RH git: ba8ea0794a]
netdev: Use unmasked key when adding datapath flows.
cs: Consider default conditions implicitly acked.
util: Fix reporting unknown keys as keys with bad length.
dpctl-top: Fix ovs-dpctl-top via pipe.

net/i40e: fix jumbo frame Rx with X722 [RH git: c34d3981fc]
10G_BASE_T_X722, when the port is configured with
off-by: Jie Wang <jie1x.wang@intel.com>
by: Dukai Yuan <dukaix.yuan@intel.com>