[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] eal: close MP socket during cleanup

[Zhang, Qi Z]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas at monjalon.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2018 4:46 PM
> To: Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
> Cc: Burakov, Anatoly <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>; dev at dpdk.org; Yigit, Ferruh
> <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] eal: close MP socket during cleanup
> 
> 19/12/2018 08:41, Qi Zhang:
> > When secondary process quit, the mp_socket* file still exist, that
> > cause rte_mp_request_sync fail when try to send message on a floating
> > socket.
> >
> > The patch fix the issue by introduce a function rte_mp_channel_fini.
> > This function will be called by rte_eal_cleanup and it will close the
> > mp socket and delete the mp_socket* file.
> 
> Why not call it rte_mp_channel_cleanup, keeping the same wording?

Just some memory in my mind that "fini" is in fashion recently, but seems I'm wrong :)

> 
> [...]
> > --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
> > +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
> > @@ -1229,6 +1229,7 @@ rte_eal_cleanup(void)
> >  	if (rte_eal_process_type() == RTE_PROC_PRIMARY)
> >  		rte_memseg_walk(mark_freeable, NULL);
> >  	rte_service_finalize();
> > +	rte_mp_channel_fini();
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> 
> Should be called in bsdapp/eal?

Yes, it should, will add in v2.

Thanks
Qi
>