[PATCH v2] app/procinfo: show all non-owned ports

[Thomas Monjalon]

25/05/2022 09:14, Morten Brørup:
> > From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:stephen at networkplumber.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 25 May 2022 08.04
> > 
> > On Tue, 24 May 2022 22:46:05 -0700
> > Subendu Santra <subendu at arista.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Show all non-owned ports when no port mask is specified
> > >
> > > show-port option without the mask option, displays only the last
> > > non-owned port. Show all the non-owned ports instead.

I think it is easier to understand if using past tense
for the previous behaviour. I reword it like this:

    The show-port option, without the mask option,
    was showing only the last non-owned port.
    Show all the non-owned ports instead.


> > > Fixes: 1dd6cffb6571 ("app/procinfo: provide way to request info on
> > owned
> > > ports")
> > > Cc: stephen at networkplumber.org

+   Cc: stable at dpdk.org

> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Subendu Santra <subendu at arista.com>
> > > ---
> > >  app/proc-info/main.c | 4 ++--
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/app/proc-info/main.c b/app/proc-info/main.c
> > > index 56070a3317..2be24b584e 100644
> > > --- a/app/proc-info/main.c
> > > +++ b/app/proc-info/main.c
> > > @@ -1504,10 +1504,10 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
> > >  	if (nb_ports == 0)
> > >  		rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "No Ethernet ports - bye\n");
> > >
> > > -	/* If no port mask was specified, then show non-owned ports */
> > > +	/* If no port mask was specified, then show all non-owned ports
> > */
> > >  	if (enabled_port_mask == 0) {
> > >  		RTE_ETH_FOREACH_DEV(i)
> > > -			enabled_port_mask = 1ul << i;
> > > +			enabled_port_mask |= (1ul << i);
> > 
> > Ok, looks good. parens on that line are unnecessary

parens removed

> > 
> > Note: this still will have issues with >32 ports on 32 bit platforms.
> 
> The default max_ethports value in meson_options.txt is 32, so the probability is low.
> 
> > But other tools probably have same problem.
> 
> It was decided many years ago to extend the port_id type from uint8_t to uint16_t, mainly to support a high number of virtual ports. So it is not good that the applications have not been updated accordingly.
> 
> However, as Stephen also mentions, this is not unique to this tool, so we'll just ignore it.
> 
> > 
> > Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com>

Applied with small changes, thanks.