[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 0/2] eal: add function to check primary alive

David Marchand david.marchand at 6wind.com
Wed Mar 9 12:07:48 CET 2016


On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Harry van Haaren
<harry.van.haaren at intel.com> wrote:
>
> The first patch of this patchset contains a fix for EAL PCI probing,
> to avoid a race-condition where a primary and secondary probe PCI
> devices at the same time.
>
> The second patch adds a function that can be polled by a process to
> detect if a DPDK primary process is alive. This function does not
> rely on rte_eal_init(), as this uses the EAL and thus stops a
> primary from starting.
>
> The functionality provided by this patch is very useful for providing
> additional services to DPDK primary applications such as monitoring
> statistics and performing fault detection.

Sergio, please can you have a look at this patchset ?

Thanks.

-- 
David Marchand


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