[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/5] net/mrvl: fix hif objects allocation

[Tomasz Duszynski]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 07:13:22PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 1/11/2018 3:35 PM, Tomasz Duszynski wrote:
> > From: Natalie Samsonov <nsamsono at marvell.com>
>
> Commit title updated to [1] assuming hif is an abbreviation (btw, what is hif?)

Thanks for fixing that. HIF stands for host-interface. You want to allocate
it per lcore so that couple of lcores can use MUSDK library simultaneously.

>
> [1]
> net/mrvl: fix HIF objects allocation
>
> >
> > 1. Add checking for non-EAL threads.
> >
> > 2. Create hif objects on first use since sometimes on probe not all
> >    lcores are initialized and can be added later.
> >    In this case the hif objects for later cores were not created and
> >    this caused system crash.
> >
> > Fixes: 0ddc9b8 ("net/mrvl: add net PMD skeleton")
>
> Fixes: 0ddc9b815b11 ("net/mrvl: add net PMD skeleton")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Natalie Samsonov <nsamsono at marvell.com>
>
> <...>
>

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- Tomasz Duszyński