[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] test/eal: do not scan PCI devices for memory tests

[Thomas Monjalon]

01/08/2019 14:27, David Marchand:
> The memory tests currently check that, for normal mode (not legacy mode),
> there is no memory left behind when exiting.

I think this is the real bug:
we are checking a behaviour that we cannot achieve currently.

> The problem is that if a ethdev port is allocated when scanning pci
> devices (even if the driver probe fails like when you have a virtio
> management interface attached to the kernel), on exit, dpdk won't free
> the associated memory since ethdev never frees the ethdev memzone.

As you said in this thread, we could think about how to free it properly
in a future release.
For 19.08, I would suggest to disable the test with a comment
explaining the reason.

> Workaround this by disabling pci scan.

If you choose the --no-pci workaround, please add a comment
about the reason.