[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 00/15] fix distributor synchronization issues

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 7:24 AM Lukasz Wojciechowski
<l.wojciechow at partner.samsung.com> wrote:
>
> During review and verification of the patch created by Sarosh Arif:
> "test_distributor: prevent memory leakages from the pool" I found out
> that running distributor unit tests multiple times in a row causes fails.
> So I investigated all the issues I found.
>
> There are few synchronization issues that might cause deadlocks
> or corrupted data. They are fixed with this set of patches for both tests
> and librte_distributor library.
>
> ---
> v5:
> * implement missing functionality in burst mode - worker shutdown
> * fix shutdown test to always shutdown busy worker
> * use atomic stores instead of barrier in tests clear_packet_count()
> * reorder patches
> * new patch 7: fix call to return_pkt in single mode
> * new patch 11: replacing delays with spinlock on atomics in tests
> * new patch 12: fix scalar matching algorithm
> * new patch 13: new test with marking and checking every packet
> * new patch 14: flush also in flight packets
> * new patch 15: fix clearing returns buffer
> * minor fixes in other patches

Thanks for working on it, Lukasz.
David, Honnappa, review please.


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David Marchand