[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: add function to check if primary proc alive

Qiu, Michael michael.qiu at intel.com
Tue Jan 26 12:07:22 CET 2016


On 1/26/2016 5:04 PM, Van Haaren, Harry wrote:
>> From: Qiu, Michael
>> On 1/25/2016 7:51 PM, Van Haaren, Harry wrote:
>>> Not really, the secondary process will need some CPU,
>>> however it can sleep so it doesn't have to use 100% of it.
>>> It shouldn't be run on a core that is used by the primary
>>> for packet-forwarding though - that will impact performance.
>> If not, what will happen if the primary been killed after you check
>> alive? At that time, the secondary may be doing some work need primary
>> alive.
> What work are you thinking of? Apart from the shared config
> and hugepages, primary and secondary processes are running
> in their own address-space, and if the primary gets killed,
> the secondary will notice when it next polls rte_eal_primary_proc_alive().
>
> Whatever work the secondary was performing (in its own address space)
> won't be directly changed by the primary being killed, because the
> shared config and hugepages stay (EAL "cleans up" when the primary
> is re-launched, not on quit).

OK,  when primary quit or be killed, the queues will be freed, it will
be a potential issue when secondary try to access, maybe I'm wrong.

Thanks,
Michael

> -Harry
>
>



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