From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/2] eal: add function to check primary alive Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 12:59:44 +0000 Message-ID: <56E01E40.3030908@intel.com> References: <1457456825-28667-1-git-send-email-harry.van.haaren@intel.com> <1457518362-32762-1-git-send-email-harry.van.haaren@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" To: David Marchand Return-path: Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 856FC29C6 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 13:59:48 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 09/03/2016 11:07, David Marchand wrote: > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Harry van Haaren > wrote: >> The first patch of this patchset contains a fix for EAL PCI probing, >> to avoid a race-condition where a primary and secondary probe PCI >> devices at the same time. >> >> The second patch adds a function that can be polled by a process to >> detect if a DPDK primary process is alive. This function does not >> rely on rte_eal_init(), as this uses the EAL and thus stops a >> primary from starting. >> >> The functionality provided by this patch is very useful for providing >> additional services to DPDK primary applications such as monitoring >> statistics and performing fault detection. > Sergio, please can you have a look at this patchset ? Yes, will do. Sergio > Thanks. >