[PATCH v5 0/3] interrupt disconnect/error event handling

Kevin Traynor
2026-03-03T18:58:35Z

These patches are to fix some issues with epoll event handling for
EPOLLERR/EPOLLRDHUP/EPOLLHUP.

1/3: handles these disconnect/error events for interrupts that are read
in eal

2/3: provides an internal API for interrupt callbacks to get the interrupt
events for the active interrupt

3/3: deal with the observed issue as reported in
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1873 where mlx5 devx interrupts
cause a busy-loop and 100% CPU of dpdk-intr thread.

v5:
- 2/3 changed API to rte_intr_active_event_flags() and made internal.
used RTE_BIT32() for defines. Added Cc: stable. Kept Acks as no
functional changes.

v4:
Updated to allow for case where devx interrupt handler may handle
multiple completions during one interrupt call, leading to no data being
read in a subsequent call as flagged by Slava.

- 1/3 No change
- 2/3 New API rte_intr_active_events() to get interrupt events
- 3/3 Use new API in mlx5 devx interrupt handler to detect if
disconnect/error events and if so unregister the callback

v3:
- 1/2 and 2/2 fix some coding nits (Stephen/AI/David)
- 2/2 Make log level consistant (David)

v2:
- Only handle disconnect/error epoll events when the read is done in eal
interrupt code. This is to allow interrupt handlers like virtio deal
with disconnects in an appropriate
- Detect if not data is read in the mlx dex interrupt and if so unregister
the callback

Kevin Traynor (3):
eal/linux: handle interrupt epoll events
eal/interrupt: add interrupt event info
net/mlx5: check devx disconnect/error interrupt events

drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_ethdev_os.c | 20 +++++
lib/eal/freebsd/eal_interrupts.c | 7 ++
lib/eal/include/rte_interrupts.h | 21 +++++
lib/eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c | 103 +++++++++++++++++-------
lib/eal/windows/eal_interrupts.c | 7 ++
5 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

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