[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] app/pdump: add pudmp exits with primary support.

[Suanming.Mou]

On 2019/5/1 0:39, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
> On 30-Apr-19 12:25 PM, Suanming.Mou wrote:
>>
>> On 2019/4/30 17:42, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
>>> On 30-Apr-19 12:35 PM, Suanming.Mou wrote:
>>>> When primary app exits, the residual running pdump will stop the
>>>> primary app to restart. Add pdump exits with primary support.
>>>>
>>>> Suggested-by: Varghese, Vipin <vipin.varghese at intel.com>
>>>> Suggested-by: Burakov, Anatoly <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Suanming.Mou <mousuanming at huawei.com>
>>>> ---
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>>   static void
>>>> +disable_primary_monitor(void)
>>>> +{
>>>> +    int ret;
>>>> +
>>>> +    /* Don't worry about it is primary exit case. The alarm cancel
>>>> +     * function will take care about that. */
>>>> +    ret = rte_eal_alarm_cancel(monitor_primary, NULL);
>>>> +    if (ret < 0)
>>>> +        printf("Fail to disable monitor fail:%d\n", ret);
>>>
>>> Double fail :)
>> Ah, yes, sorry for that the code gets worse.  :(
>>>
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>> +static void
>>>>   signal_handler(int sig_num)
>>>>   {
>>>>       if (sig_num == SIGINT) {
>>>> @@ -910,6 +936,19 @@ struct parse_val {
>>>>           ;
>>>>   }
>>>>   +static void
>>>> +enable_primary_monitor(void)
>>>> +{
>>>> +    int ret;
>>>> +
>>>> +    /* Once primary exits, so will pdump. */
>>>> +    ret = rte_eal_alarm_set(MONITOR_INTERVAL, monitor_primary, NULL);
>>>> +    if (ret < 0) {
>>>> +        cleanup_pdump_resources();
>>>> +        rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Fail to monitor primary:%d\n", ret);
>>>> +    }
>>>
>>> Why is this function void, when you could've called rte_exit() in 
>>> the caller on failure? And why is it such a fatal error to set up 
>>> the timer? IMO just a warning would've been enough.
>>
>> Here comes with two issues:
>>
>> Q1. The return value of the function:
>>
>> A1: I'm so sorry that it does not seem to make sense to check the 
>> function's return value. Does it mean if we change the timer set up 
>> from error to warning, then we can use the return value to judge if 
>> need to disable the primary_monitor?
>>
>> Q2. The choice when rte_eal_alarm_set fail:
>>
>> A2: OK, agree with that.
>
> If this is non-fatal, no need to change anything - just print out a 
> warning instead of rte_exit, and no more changes needed here.
Happy may day holiday! Thanks for your confirmation.
>
>>
>>>
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>>   int
>>>>   main(int argc, char **argv)
>>>>   {
>>>> @@ -950,11 +989,13 @@ struct parse_val {
>>>>               rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Invalid argument\n");
>>>>       }
>>>>   -    /* create mempool, ring and vdevs info */
>>>> +    /* create mempool, ring, vdevs info and primary monitor */
>>>>       create_mp_ring_vdev();
>>>>       enable_pdump();
>>>> +    enable_primary_monitor();
>>>>       dump_packets();
>>>>   +    disable_primary_monitor();
>>>>       cleanup_pdump_resources();
>>>>       /* dump debug stats */
>>>>       print_pdump_stats();
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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