[PATCH v4 0/8] support reinit flow

[Sinan Kaya]

On Tue, 2023-08-15 at 10:45 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Why?
> > It is not always ideal to reinitialize a DPDK process. Memory needs
> > to be reinitialized, hugetables need to warm up etc.
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> I am familiar with the backstory of why this is desirable in your
> case.
> 
> But others may not be. It will work for you, but for the wider the
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> range of libraries and drivers it probably won't.
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> 

Fair enough.

> 
> As a compromise, can this restart be officially tagged as
> unsupported.

any pointers how to do this?

I have no idea how to mark something unsupported in code.
If this is acceptable in cover letter, I'm happy to do that too.

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> I.e. it may work for some drivers and libraries but not all of them.
> 
> If nothing else many parts of DPDK still do leak memory on cleanup
> 
> and currently this is harmless.
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> 
> This has enough impact that it probably needs to wait past 23.11
> release.
> 
> 

Sure, no rush. Happy to wait for time slot and accumulate review
feedbacks.

> 
> Could you add a test for restart into standalone tests and test-pmd?

Will do.