[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 3/3] net/tap: allow secondary process to access primary device queues
Ferruh Yigit
ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Wed Oct 17 18:02:06 CEST 2018
On 10/17/2018 3:45 PM, Raslan Darawsheh wrote:
> In the case the device is created by the primary process,
> the secondary must request some file descriptors to attach the queues.
> The file descriptors are shared via IPC Unix socket.
>
> Thanks to the IPC synchronization, the secondary process
> is now able to do Rx/Tx on a TAP created by the primary process.
>
> Signed-off-by: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at mellanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
>
> ---
> v2:
> - translate file descriptors via IPC API
> - add documentation
> v3:
> - rabse the commit
> - use private static array for fd's to be local for each process
>
> v4:
> - removed TODO and FIXME tags
> - used strlcpy instead of strcpy
>
> v5: rebase the commit on top of Alejandro Lucero patch for secondary
> process private pointer.
> http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/46185/
>
> v6: reword the commit log
>
> v7: rely on tap_device_count for registration
> v8: fix the fail recovery
The code is exact same with v7, perhaps send wrong branch/code ? (or testing
your luck :)
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