[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/failsafe: do not probe device if plugged out

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 7/13/2017 10:17 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 13/07/2017 10:14, Gaëtan Rivet:
>> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 08:52:33AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>> 12/07/2017 22:39, Gaëtan Rivet:
>>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>>
>>>> Nice idea. A few remarks below:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 08:28:12PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>>>>  	FOREACH_SUBDEV(sdev, i, dev) {
>>>>>  		if (sdev->state != DEV_PARSED)
>>>>>  			continue;
>>>>>  		da = &sdev->devargs;
>>>>> +
>>>>
>>>> Superfluous line.
>>>
>>> I don't think so :) It is isolating the "skip" block with its comment.
>>>
>>>>> +		/* skip plugged out devices */
>>>>> +		if (! first_init
>>>>> +				&& sdev->cmdline == NULL
>>>>> +				&& strcmp(da->bus->name, "vdev") != 0) {
>>>>
>>>> Use first_init == false instead of negation.
>>>> && should be at the end of the line instead of the start of the next
>>>> one.
>>>
>>> Yes
>>>
>>>> Indentation is wrong.
>>>
>>> No, the coding style is to put 2 tabs for continuation lines.
>>>
>>>>> +			da->bus->scan();
>>>>> +			if (bus->find_device(NULL, cmp_dev_name, da->name) == NULL)
>>>>> +				continue; /* device not found */
>>>>
>>>> da->bus->find_device instead of bus->find_device.
>>>> This function cannot find the device back currently on the PCI bus,
>>>> blocking the plugging of VF.
>>>>
>>>> The PCI bus will scan the VF while no rte_devargs exists to
>>>> describe it within the global list. If the device exists, it will
>>>> detect it, allocate it and then set its name.
>>>> Without any rte_devargs, the name of a PCI device falls back to its
>>>> canonical name (DomBDF instead of BDF). The name comparison with
>>>> da->name can only succeed if the slave was declared using the DomBDF
>>>> format.
>>>>
>>>> The fix is to do a deep copy of the rte_devargs (the API has been
>>>> sent previously with the rte_devargs rework but I have since removed
>>>> it) and insert it using rte_eal_devargs_insert(). This is essentially
>>>> the solution I used for the rte_eal_hotplug_add() fix[1].
>>>>
>>>> The alternative fix is to propose an API for buses to transform device
>>>> names into their canonical form on demand... And it would certainly only
>>>> be useful for the PCI bus.
>>>>
>>>> The issue is discussed there:
>>>> [1]: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-July/071155.html
>>>
>>> OK, I was not aware of this exact issue.
>>> So I will wait above fix.
>>
>> The fix above will not solve this issue.
>> If you are waiting for a proper, general fix, I don't think it will
>> arrive anytime soon.
>>
>> I have the rte_eal_devargs_clone and a working version that I can send
>> in-reply-to if you want. But that's an API extension while in RC2 so...
> 
> No worries, it can be fixed in 17.11.
> 

What is the status of the patch, is this patch rejected for this
release, or will be merged into existing failsafe?