Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] test/eal: do not scan PCI devices for memory tests

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

03/08/2019 11:51, David Marchand:
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 10:57 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
> >
> > 01/08/2019 14:27, David Marchand:
> > > The memory tests currently check that, for normal mode (not legacy mode),
> > > there is no memory left behind when exiting.
> >
> > I think this is the real bug:
> > we are checking a behaviour that we cannot achieve currently.
> >
> > > The problem is that if a ethdev port is allocated when scanning pci
> > > devices (even if the driver probe fails like when you have a virtio
> > > management interface attached to the kernel), on exit, dpdk won't free
> > > the associated memory since ethdev never frees the ethdev memzone.
> >
> > As you said in this thread, we could think about how to free it properly
> > in a future release.
> > For 19.08, I would suggest to disable the test with a comment
> > explaining the reason.
> 
> For 19.08, as long as we test shared builds in the CI, then it just
> "works", because the net drivers are not loaded.
> No net driver, no ethdev leak ;-)

So we keep the bug with the unit test not running with a static build
for 19.08, and we'll try to fix it in 19.11?