[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] service: fix service core launch
Harry van Haaren
harry.van.haaren at intel.com
Tue Jan 9 12:38:05 CET 2018
This patch fixes a potential bug, which was not consistently
showing up in the unit tests. The issue was that the service-
lcore being started was not in a "WAIT" state, and hence EAL
would return -EBUSY instead of launching the lcore.
In order to ensure a core is in a launch-ready state, the application
must call rte_eal_wait_lcore, to ensure that the core has completed
its previous task, and that EAL is ready to re-launch it.
The call to rte_eal_wait_lcore() is explicitly not in the
service core function, to make it visible to the application.
Requiring an explicit function call ensures the developer sees
that a lcore could block in the rte_eal_wait_lcore() function
if the core hasn't returned from its previous function.
>From a usability perspective, hiding the wait_lcore() inside
service cores would cause confusion.
This patch adds rte_eal_wait_lcore() calls to the unit tests,
to ensure that the lcores for testing functionality are ready
to run the test.
Fixes: 21698354c832 ("service: introduce service cores concept")
+CC stable at dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>
---
v3: no change, only patch 1/2 changed.
v2:
- Increased delay time, as certain systems could fail intermittently
due to the thread not being spawned before delay was over (Pavan)
- Added rte_eal_wait_lcore() on service cores to ensure cores are
ready state before re-running test with new parameters (Pavan)
@Stable maintainers; this is an EXPERIMENTAL tagged API, so
I'm not sure what the expectation is in terms of backporting.
---
lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_service.h | 4 +++-
test/test/test_service_cores.c | 10 +++++++++-
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_service.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_service.h
index 5a76383..95def4c 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_service.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_service.h
@@ -246,7 +246,9 @@ int32_t rte_service_run_iter_on_app_lcore(uint32_t id,
* Start a service core.
*
* Starting a core makes the core begin polling. Any services assigned to it
- * will be run as fast as possible.
+ * will be run as fast as possible. The application must ensure that the lcore
+ * is in a launchable state: e.g. call *rte_eal_lcore_wait* on the lcore_id
+ * before calling this function.
*
* @retval 0 Success
* @retval -EINVAL Failed to start core. The *lcore_id* passed in is not
diff --git a/test/test/test_service_cores.c b/test/test/test_service_cores.c
index 7d09f5c..2972a80 100644
--- a/test/test/test_service_cores.c
+++ b/test/test/test_service_cores.c
@@ -320,6 +320,7 @@ service_lcore_en_dis_able(void)
/* call remote_launch to verify that app can launch ex-service lcore */
service_remote_launch_flag = 0;
+ rte_eal_wait_lcore(slcore_id);
int ret = rte_eal_remote_launch(service_remote_launch_func, NULL,
slcore_id);
TEST_ASSERT_EQUAL(0, ret, "Ex-service core remote launch failed.");
@@ -334,7 +335,7 @@ static int
service_lcore_running_check(void)
{
uint64_t tick = service_tick;
- rte_delay_ms(SERVICE_DELAY * 10);
+ rte_delay_ms(SERVICE_DELAY * 100);
/* if (tick != service_tick) we know the lcore as polled the service */
return tick != service_tick;
}
@@ -477,6 +478,10 @@ service_threaded_test(int mt_safe)
if (!mt_safe)
test_params[1] = 1;
+ /* wait for lcores before start() */
+ rte_eal_wait_lcore(slcore_1);
+ rte_eal_wait_lcore(slcore_2);
+
rte_service_lcore_start(slcore_1);
rte_service_lcore_start(slcore_2);
@@ -490,6 +495,8 @@ service_threaded_test(int mt_safe)
TEST_ASSERT_EQUAL(0, rte_service_runstate_set(sid, 0),
"Failed to stop MT Safe service");
+ rte_eal_wait_lcore(slcore_1);
+ rte_eal_wait_lcore(slcore_2);
unregister_all();
/* return the value of the callback pass_test variable to caller */
@@ -583,6 +590,7 @@ service_app_lcore_poll_impl(const int mt_safe)
rte_service_runstate_set(id, 1);
uint32_t app_core2 = rte_get_next_lcore(slcore_id, 1, 1);
+ rte_eal_wait_lcore(app_core2);
int app_core2_ret = rte_eal_remote_launch(service_run_on_app_core_func,
&id, app_core2);
--
2.7.4
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