Re: i40e igb_uio: reset pci on process exit

[Gregory Etelson <gregory@weka.io>]

PMD already resets PCI during initialization.
In my patch, exiting process forced to release it's resources

On Monday, 29 May 2017 14:01:48 IDT Shijith Thotton wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 01:01:06PM +0300, Gregory Etelson wrote:
> >    I still have to support Red Hat 6.x. These system do not have VFIO
> > 
> >    IGB_UIO is the only option there.
> > 
> >    Also, there was a discussion that claimed IGB_UIO has better performance
> >    than VFIO.
> > 
> >    http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-August/004609.html
> > 
> >    Regards,
> >    Gregory
> > 
> 
> [..]
> >> static int
> >> igbuio_pci_open(struct uio_info *info, struct inode *inode)
> >> {
> >>	struct rte_uio_pci_dev *udev = info->priv;
> >>	struct pci_dev *dev = udev->pdev;
> >>
> >>	return pci_reset_function(dev);
> >> }
> >>
> >> and..
> >> udev->info.open = igbuio_pci_open;
> >>
> 
> I was suggesting to make reset part of open. It should work on your setup.
> 
> -	udev->info.release = igbuio_pci_release;
> +	udev->info.open = igbuio_pci_open;
> 
> Shijith
>