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Subject: [Bug 194] vhost pmd has become unusable from secondary
	processes.
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 05:45:06 +0000
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https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D194

            Bug ID: 194
           Summary: vhost pmd has become unusable from secondary
                    processes.
           Product: DPDK
           Version: 18.11
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: CONFIRMED
          Severity: critical
          Priority: Normal
         Component: vhost/virtio
          Assignee: dev@dpdk.org
          Reporter: oda@valinux.co.jp
  Target Milestone: ---

This problem was discovered when trying to migrate the base of
SPP(http://git.dpdk.org/apps/spp/) from DPDK v18.08 to v18.11.
In SPP, secondary processes attach (rte_eal_hotplug_add) and use vhost pmd =
(ex.
devargs: "eth_vhost0,iface=3D/tmp/sock0,queues=3D1,client=3D1").
It was no problem under DPDK v18.08 but secondary processes crash under v18=
.11.

As a result of some investigations, it was found that the direct cause of c=
rash
is because no value is set (i.e. null pointer) for [rt]x_pkt_burst member of
rte_eth_dev of vhost.
Certainly there is no place to set on the code.
(Is this comment related to something?
https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk/blob/master/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c#=
L1352
)

In addition, even if the value is set, it will not work.
This is because eth_vhost_[rt]x refers to vid which is the index of
vhsot_devices
(https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk/blob/master/lib/librte_vhost/vhost.c#L28).
vhost_devices is per process data (i.e. not shared data) and the primary
process only uses vhost_devices under v18.11 (unlike v18.08) and it is not
accessed from=20
secondary processes.
Perhaps some fix, such as making vhost_devices a shared data, is necessary.

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