From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] app/testpmd: fix pmd_test_exit function for vdevs Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 15:12:28 +0200 Message-ID: <9489790.cv73CZovxU@xps> References: <20180518095937.28710-1-zhiyong.yang@intel.com> <1865181.OGjELPnye7@xps> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Matan Azrad , "Iremonger, Bernard" , "Yao, Lei A" , "maxime.coquelin@redhat.com" , "Bie, Tiwei" , "stable@dpdk.org" , Harry Van Haaren To: Ferruh Yigit , "Yang, Zhiyong" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1865181.OGjELPnye7@xps> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Any update to improve this workaround? 21/05/2018 18:38, Thomas Monjalon: > 21/05/2018 18:32, Ferruh Yigit: > > On 5/21/2018 11:54 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > > 19/05/2018 16:19, Thomas Monjalon: > > >> 18/05/2018 18:29, Ferruh Yigit: > > >>> On 5/18/2018 4:55 PM, Matan Azrad wrote: > > >>>> Hi all > > >>>> > > >>>> While this patch also applied I don't understand it. > > >>>> Is it mandatory for each PMD to free all its resources in dev_close()? > > >>>> Or it should be done by the rte_device remove function? > > >>>> > > >>>> If the resource cleanup should be done by the remove function I think it > > >>>> should be called for all the devices (pci, vdev, etc). > > >>>> > > >>>> Is there an exit function for EAL to clean rte_eal_init()? If no, looks like we need it... > > >>> > > >>> Hi Matan, > > >>> > > >>> I believe there is a gap in resource cleanup. > > >>> dev_close() it not for resource cleanup, it should be in PMD remove() functions, > > >>> and PMDs have it. The problem is remove path is not called in application exit. > > >>> > > >>> As far as I know there is no simple API to clean the resources, having it may > > >>> help application to do the cleanup. > > >>> > > >>> I have seen the rte_eal_cleanup() API by Harry, that can be extended to cover > > >>> PMD resource cleanup if there is enough motivation for it. > > >> > > >> Yes, EAL resources should be removed by the function rte_eal_cleanup(). > > >> And ethdev ports must be removed by rte_eth_dev_close(). > > > > > > This patch is relying on rte_eth_dev_detach() to remove the EAL device. > > > It should be done in rte_eal_cleanup(). > > > > > > I am concerned that this patch is workarounding a miss in rte_eal_cleanup, > > > and takes a different action only for vdev. It is a bad example. > > > > Indeed it does workaround, but it is needed to fix a defect in virtio-user. > > The defect is still in virtio-user after this patch. > To make this workaround acceptable, you need: > 1/ add the virtio-user known issue in release notes > 2/ add a FIXME comment in testpmd code explaining the workaround > 3/ commit to work on rte_eal_cleanup() in 18.08 > > > And currently rte_eal_cleanup() is not complete, it is not doing any device > > related cleanup. > > Yes, we need to add more code in rte_eal_cleanup(). > > > > And the function rte_eth_dev_detach() is fundamentally wrong and should be deprecated: > > > http://dpdk.org/commit/b05b444d22 > > > http://dpdk.org/commit/b0fb266855 > > > http://dpdk.org/commit/df3e8ad73f > > > > > > One more concern: it seems this patch is breaking failsafe use case. > > > Note: bonding is managed as an exception in rte_eth_dev_detach(). > > I have sent a fix in vdev code for the failsafe issue. > > No matter the vdev fix is applied or not, this workaround could target only virtio-user.