[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] Thread termination leak fixes

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Tue May 11 23:41:48 CEST 2021


On 5/11/2021 12:33 PM, David Marchand wrote:
> After looking at the control thread API use in recent changes, I noticed
> that some thread resources are not properly released.
> This series fixes two net drivers.
> 

Series applied to dpdk-next-net/main, thanks.

> Additional notes:
> - I noticed that event/dlb2 never kills/terminates its service thread.
>   It means unplug of this device (if supported) would leak the associated
>   thread resources. I leave it to this driver maintainer to comment/fix.
> 
> - The vhost library also lets a service thread in the background but since
>   there is no way to unitialize this library, there is no leak to fix from
>   my pov.
> 



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