[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 0/2] eal: add function to check primary alive

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Wed Mar 9 16:17:36 CET 2016


2016-03-09 13:37, Harry van Haaren:
> The first patch of this patchset contains a fix for EAL PCI probing,
> to avoid a race-condition where a primary and secondary probe PCI
> devices at the same time.
> 
> The second patch adds a function that can be polled by a process to
> detect if a DPDK primary process is alive. This function does not
> rely on rte_eal_init(), as this uses the EAL and thus stops a
> primary from starting.
> 
> The functionality provided by this patch is very useful for providing
> additional services to DPDK primary applications such as monitoring
> statistics and performing fault detection.

Applied, thanks


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