[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] app/testpmd: allow detaching a port not closed

Andrew Rybchenko arybchenko at solarflare.com
Wed Oct 17 08:26:27 CEST 2018


On 10/17/18 4:54 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> The testpmd application aim is for testing;
> so order of operations should not be enforced.
>
> There was a test to forbid detaching before closing a port.
> However, it may interesting to test what happens in such case.
> It is possible for a PMD to automatically close the port when detaching.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>

I'm afraid it could be a problem which the patch, since port
close ensures that the port is not used for traffic forwarding.
Right now the check is gone and we can detach port which
is used for traffic forwarding on separate data cores.
So, almost guaranteed crash.



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