[PATCH v2 0/2] net/sfc: fix and extend secondary process support

Ivan Malov ivan.malov at arknetworks.am
Sat Aug 22 01:45:04 CEST 2026


The series addresses two secondary process deficiencies.

Patch 1 adds a missing shared adapter pointer assignment to
the secondary process init path, preventing a NULL pointer
dereference at device close time.

Patch 2 pre-populates a primary-process device info cache
to satisfy the 'dev_infos_get' requirement now imposed by
the 'test-pmd' application on secondary processes.


v2:

- addressed https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2026-August/343941.html


Ivan Malov (2):
  net/sfc: fix shared adapter pointer set in secondary process
  net/sfc: provide cached dev info to use in secondary process

 drivers/net/sfc/sfc.h        | 19 ++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/sfc/sfc_ethdev.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 69 insertions(+)

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2.47.3



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