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

Sergio Gonzalez Monroy sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com
Wed Mar 9 13:59:44 CET 2016


On 09/03/2016 11:07, David Marchand wrote:
> 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 ?

Yes, will do.

Sergio

> Thanks.
>



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