[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] eal: add function to check if primary proc alive

[David Marchand]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Thomas Monjalon
<thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote:
> 2016-03-08 09:58, Van Haaren, Harry:
>> From: David Marchand [mailto:david.marchand at 6wind.com]
>> > When I look at this new api, I am under the impression that you are
>> > supposed to check for primary liveliness once dpdk init has finished
>> > (from your secondary process point of view), not before and not while
>> > it is initialising.
>>
>> The issue is that if a secondary process is initialized, it holds a read
>> lock on  /var/run/.rte_config  and this prevents a primary from starting.
>
> The new function is advertised as a monitoring feature.
> But it seems to be also a workaround for an ordering issue when starting
> primary and secondary processes concurrently, right?

+1


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David Marchand