[PATCH 2/2] eal: notify secondary on primary exit

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 5/7/2026 10:58 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> When primary process exits, it should notify the secondary
> processes. This allows for clean shutdown and eliminates need
> for MP handling in applications (such as test-pmd).
> 
> Bugzilla ID: 1942
> Fixes: 85d6815fa6d0 ("eal: close multi-process socket during cleanup")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> ---

Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>

It would be cool to have some kind of event for this so that processes 
could react to primary/secondary going up/down, but this is 1) way 
beyond scope of this patch, and 2) of dubious usefulness given that the 
only thing testpmd did with the information was to stop forwarding.

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Thanks,
Anatoly