[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/5] telemetry: fix deletion of active sockets

[Conor Walsh]

On 05/10/2021 14:59, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> When DPDK is run with --in-memory mode, multiple processes can run
> simultaneously using the same runtime dir. This leads to each process,
> as it starts up, removing the telemetry socket of another process,
> giving unexpected behaviour.
>
> This patch changes that behaviour to first check if the existing socket
> is active. If not, it's an old socket to be cleaned up and can be
> removed. If it is active, telemetry initialization fails and an error
> message is printed out giving instructions on how to remove the error;
> either by using file-prefix to have a different runtime dir (and
> therefore socket path) or by disabling telemetry if it not needed.
>
> Fixes: 6dd571fd07c3 ("telemetry: introduce new functionality")
>
> Reported-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power at intel.com>
> ---

Tested-by: Conor Walsh <conor.walsh at intel.com>