[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/5] net/mlx5: fix non working secondary process by removing it

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Thu Aug 17 16:38:22 CEST 2017


On 8/1/2017 1:09 PM, Nelio Laranjeiro wrote:
> Secondary process is a copy/paste of the mlx4 drivers, it was never
> tested and it even segfault at the secondary process start in the
> mlx5_pci_probe().

Does this means multi process support for mlx5 broken with this patch?
If so features file and release notes should be updated if this won't be
fixed back in this release..

And what is special required for mlx5 secondary process support?

> 
> This makes more sense to wipe this non working feature to re-write a
> working and functional version.
> 
> Fixes: a48deada651b ("mlx5: allow operation in secondary processes")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro at 6wind.com>
> Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>

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