[PATCH v1 0/7] support reinit flow

[Sinan Kaya]

On Mon, 2023-08-14 at 19:12 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 21:38:19 -0400
> 
> okaya at kernel.org wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > From: Sinan Kaya <okaya at kernel.org>
> > We want to be able to call rte_eal_init() and rte_eal_cleanup()
> > APIs back to back for maintanance reasons.
> 
> 
> Why?
> 
> This change exposes lots of drivers, API's and other things to
> untested code paths.
> 
> If you just want to do a hard restart, maybe just reexecing the same
> application would
> 
> be better.

It is not always ideal to reinitialize a DPDK process. Memory needs
to be reinitialized, hugetables need to warm up etc.

Given the cost of change is not huge, I believe this will be
important contribution for certain application types.
Changeset is not doing anything different from what already exists.