[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] drivers/net: set close behaviour flag at probing

Luca Boccassi bluca at debian.org
Mon Nov 12 10:42:49 CET 2018


On Sun, 2018-11-11 at 23:46 +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> The ethdev flag RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE is set for drivers
> having migrated to the new behaviour of rte_eth_dev_close().
> 
> As any other flag, it can be useful to know about its value
> as soon as the port is probed.
> Unfortunately, it was set inside the close operation,
> just before being erased by memset() in rte_eth_dev_release_port().
> The flag assignment is moved to the probing stage, so it can
> be checked by the application in order to anticipate the behaviour.
> 
> Fixes: 42603bbdb58e ("net/mlx5: release port on close")
> Cc: ophirmu at mellanox.com
> Fixes: 6c99085d972b ("net/vmxnet3: fix hot-unplug")
> Cc: bluca at debian.org
> Fixes: 4d7877fde2ef ("net/ena: remove resources when port is being
> closed")
> Cc: mk at semihalf.com
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ena/ena_ethdev.c         | 11 ++++++-----
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c              |  7 ++-----
>  drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.c |  9 +++------
>  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi


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