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From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] ethdev: add port ownership
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 09:32:45 -0500
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On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 03:07:28PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 19/01/2018 14:57, Neil Horman:
> > > > I specifically pointed that out above.  There is no reason an owernship record
> > > > couldn't be added to the rte_eth_dev structure.
> > >
> > > Sorry, don't understand why.
> > >
> > Because, thats the resource your trying to protect, and the object you want to
> > identify ownership of, no?
> 
> No
> The rte_eth_dev structure is the port representation in the process.
> The rte_eth_dev_data structure is the port represenation across multi-process.
> The ownership must be in rte_eth_dev_data to cover multi-process protection.
> 
Ok.   You get the idea though right?  That the port representation,
for some definition thereof, should embody the ownership state.
Neil

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