From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: update warnings about primary/secondary process
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 08:28:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260408152808.201257-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> (raw)
The existing documentation about primary/secondary requirements
is not strong enough; make it clear what the requirements are.
This may be obvious already to developers but not users.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst
index a73918a5da..e0ba72c294 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst
@@ -25,10 +25,15 @@ after a primary process has already configured the hugepage shared memory for th
.. note::
- Secondary processes should run alongside primary process with same DPDK version.
+ Secondary processes run alongside the primary process and:
+
+ * MUST have equivalent permissions and trust level.
+ There is no privilege separation between primary and secondary processes.
+ * MUST be running the same DPDK version.
+ * MUST be passed the same device access arguments (allow and block options).
+ * MUST share the same mount and PID namespaces. Running a secondary process
+ in a different container namespace from the primary is not supported.
- Secondary processes which requires access to physical devices in Primary process, must
- be passed with the same allow and block options.
To support these two process types, and other multi-process setups described later,
two additional command-line parameters are available to the EAL:
--
2.53.0
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