[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 6/7] net/failsafe: use ownership mechanism to own ports

Matan Azrad matan at mellanox.com
Sat Jan 20 22:24:27 CET 2018


Fail-safe PMD sub devices management is based on ethdev port mechanism.
So, the sub-devices management structures are exposed to other DPDK
entities which may use them in parallel to fail-safe PMD.

Use the new port ownership mechanism to avoid multiple managments of
fail-safe PMD sub-devices.

Signed-off-by: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet at 6wind.com>
---
 drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c         | 7 +++++++
 drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_eal.c     | 6 ++++++
 drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_private.h | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c b/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c
index b767352..a1e1c7a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c
+++ b/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c
@@ -196,6 +196,13 @@
 	ret = failsafe_args_parse(dev, params);
 	if (ret)
 		goto free_subs;
+	ret = rte_eth_dev_owner_new(&priv->my_owner.id);
+	if (ret) {
+		ERROR("Failed to get unique owner identifier");
+		goto free_args;
+	}
+	snprintf(priv->my_owner.name, sizeof(priv->my_owner.name),
+		 FAILSAFE_OWNER_NAME);
 	ret = failsafe_eal_init(dev);
 	if (ret)
 		goto free_args;
diff --git a/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_eal.c b/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_eal.c
index 33a5adf..5f3da06 100644
--- a/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_eal.c
+++ b/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_eal.c
@@ -106,6 +106,12 @@
 			INFO("Taking control of a probed sub device"
 			      " %d named %s", i, da->name);
 		}
+		ret = rte_eth_dev_owner_set(pid, &PRIV(dev)->my_owner);
+		if (ret) {
+			INFO("sub_device %d owner set failed (%s),"
+			     " will try again later", i, strerror(ret));
+			continue;
+		}
 		ETH(sdev) = &rte_eth_devices[pid];
 		SUB_ID(sdev) = i;
 		sdev->fs_dev = dev;
diff --git a/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_private.h b/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_private.h
index 4916365..b377046 100644
--- a/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_private.h
+++ b/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_private.h
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 #include <rte_devargs.h>
 
 #define FAILSAFE_DRIVER_NAME "Fail-safe PMD"
+#define FAILSAFE_OWNER_NAME "Fail-safe"
 
 #define PMD_FAILSAFE_MAC_KVARG "mac"
 #define PMD_FAILSAFE_HOTPLUG_POLL_KVARG "hotplug_poll"
@@ -145,6 +146,7 @@ struct fs_priv {
 	uint32_t mac_addr_pool[FAILSAFE_MAX_ETHADDR];
 	/* current capabilities */
 	struct rte_eth_dev_info infos;
+	struct rte_eth_dev_owner my_owner; /* Unique owner. */
 	/*
 	 * Fail-safe state machine.
 	 * This level will be tracking state of the EAL and eth
-- 
1.8.3.1



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