[PATCH v4 0/8] support reinit flow

okaya at kernel.org okaya at kernel.org
Tue Aug 15 16:50:15 CEST 2023


From: Sinan Kaya <okaya at kernel.org>

We want to be able to call rte_eal_init() and rte_eal_cleanup()
APIs back to back for maintanance reasons.

Here is a summary of the code we have seen so far:

1. some code support getting called multiple times by keeping
a static variable.
2. some code initializes once but never clean up after them and
don't have a cleanup API.
3. some code assumes that they only get called once during the
lifecycle of the process.

Most changes in this patch center around following the #1 design
principle.

Why?

It is not always ideal to reinitialize a DPDK process. Memory needs
to be reinitialized, hugetables need to warm up etc.

Changed from

v1:
Fix checkpatch warnings

v2:
rebase to most recent DPDK.

v3:
pick up Stephen's "eal: cleanup plugins data" as a pre-requisite
patch.

Graham Whyte (1):
  eal: fixes for re-initialization issues

Sinan Kaya (6):
  tailq: skip init if already initialized
  eal_memzone: bail out on initialized
  memseg: init once
  eal_memory: skip initialization
  eal_interrupts: don't reinitialize threads
  eal: initialize worker threads once

Stephen Hemminger (1):
  eal: cleanup plugins data

 lib/eal/common/eal_common_memory.c  |  5 +++
 lib/eal/common/eal_common_memzone.c |  7 +++
 lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 20 +++++++++
 lib/eal/common/eal_common_tailqs.c  | 20 ++++++---
 lib/eal/common/eal_options.h        |  1 +
 lib/eal/common/malloc_heap.c        |  7 +++
 lib/eal/linux/eal.c                 | 66 ++++++++++++++++-------------
 lib/eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c      |  7 +++
 lib/eal/linux/eal_memory.c          | 12 +++++-
 9 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

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2.25.1



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