[dpdk-dev] [RFC] vhost user: add error handling for fd > 1023

Xie, Huawei huawei.xie at intel.com
Fri Apr 8 08:47:00 CEST 2016


On 4/7/2016 10:52 PM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> I totally agree to that there is no deterministic rule what to expect.
> The only rule is that #fd certainly always is > #vhost_user devices.
> In various setup variants I've crossed fd 1024 anywhere between 475
> and 970 vhost_user ports.
>
> Once the discussion continues and we have an updates version of the
> patch with some more agreement I hope I can help to test it.

Thanks. Let us first temporarily fix this problem for robustness, then
we consider whether upgrade to (e)poll.
Will check the patch in detail later. Basically it should work but need
check whether we need extra fixes elsewhere.


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