[PATCH] failsafe: Bug fix for the secondary process RX-TX support

[Gaëtan Rivet]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021, at 11:06, Kumara Parameshwaran wrote:
> Remove the vdev args check for secondary process which prevents the 
> secondary from attaching
> to the device created by the primary process via the hotplug framework. 
> This check was removed
> for other vdevs but was missed for failsafe.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kumara Parameshwaran <kumaraparamesh92 at gmail.com>

Hello Kumara,

Thanks for your patch.
If this is a fix, can you provide the fixline with a pointer to the patch it is meant
to fix please?

I'm guessing this should be this:
Fixes: 4852aa8f6e21 ("drivers/net: enable hotplug on secondary process")
Cc: qi.z.zhang at intel.com

Looking at this patch, I see also

+       if (rte_eal_process_type() != RTE_PROC_PRIMARY)
+               return rte_eth_dev_release_port_secondary(eth_dev);
+

Added to the remove callbacks of the ports.
It seems to be omitted from this patch, is there a reason?

> ---
>  drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c b/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c
> index ad6b43538e..3c754a5f66 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c
> @@ -340,8 +340,7 @@ rte_pmd_failsafe_probe(struct rte_vdev_device *vdev)
>  	INFO("Initializing " FAILSAFE_DRIVER_NAME " for %s",
>  			name);
> 
> -	if (rte_eal_process_type() == RTE_PROC_SECONDARY &&
> -	    strlen(rte_vdev_device_args(vdev)) == 0) {
> +	if (rte_eal_process_type() == RTE_PROC_SECONDARY) {
>  		eth_dev = rte_eth_dev_attach_secondary(name);
>  		if (!eth_dev) {
>  			ERROR("Failed to probe %s", name);
> -- 
> 2.30.1 (Apple Git-130)

-- 
Gaetan Rivet