[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add known issue of rte abort on FreeBSD

[Reshma Pattan]

Added known issue of rte_abort taking a long time
on FreeBSD due to recent memory subsystem rework.

Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
index 3dcb62538..c01781956 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
@@ -485,6 +485,21 @@ Known Issues
   dpdk-pdump example and any other applications using librte_pdump, cannot work
   with older version DPDK primary applications.
 
+* **rte_abort takes a long time on FreeBSD due to memory subsytsem rework.**
+
+  With the recent memory subsystem changes, DPDK processes now allocate a large
+  area of virtual memory address space. During rte_abort FreeBSD will dump the
+  contents of the whole reserved memory range, not just the used portion, to a
+  core dump file. Write this large core file can take a significant amount of
+  time, causing processes to appear hung on the system.
+
+  The work around for the issue is to set the system resource limits for core
+  dumps before running any tests e.g."limit coredumpsize 0". This will
+  effectively disable core dumps on FreeBSD. If they are not to be completely
+  disabled, a suitable limit, e.g. 1G might be specified instead of 0. This
+  needs to be run per-shell session, or before every test run. This change
+  can also be made persistent by adding "kern.coredump=0" to /etc/sysctl.conf
+
 
 Shared Library Versions
 -----------------------
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2.14.3