[dpdk-dev] [EXT] Re: [PATCH v2] test: fix process dup fd close

[Krzysztof Kanas]

On 19-10-30 10:06, David Marchand wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 11:50 AM <kkanas at marvell.com> wrote:
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> > From: Krzysztof Kanas <kkanas at marvell.com>
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> > process_dup was intending to close it's own fd's but failed to do so
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> A bit hard to digest, what is the problem that you want to fix?
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> Thanks.

I don't recall the exact test name but I think it was test_eal_flags 
that is included in the meson test suite for fast tests.
This test was timing out on ARM64.

Using strace (-f -c IIRC) showed that the process is spending most of 
the time in access syscall trying to close not existing fd's.

-               for (fd = getdtablesize(); fd > 2; fd-- ) {
-                       snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "/proc/" exe "/fd/%d", fd);
-                       if (access(path, F_OK) == 0)
-                               close(fd);

So the simplest way to do so is to close only the opened fd's not
blindly try every possible one.

Also I think the code was wrong in another way as it tried to iterate 
over /proc/ *exe* /fd/%d/ when it should iterate over /proc/ *self* 
/fd/, so either the comment bove the for loop was wrong or the code was 
incorrect.


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Krzysztof(Chris) Kanas