[dpdk-stable] [PATCH v7 4/7] vhost: fix NUMA reallocation with multiqueue

[David Marchand]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 6:11 PM Maxime Coquelin
<maxime.coquelin at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Since the Vhost-user device initialization has been reworked,
> enabling the application to start using the device as soon as
> the first queue pair is ready, NUMA reallocation no more
> happened on queue pairs other than the first one since
> numa_realloc() was returning early if the device was running.
>
> This patch fixes this issue by only preventing the device
> metadata to be allocated if the device is running. For the

Hum, I understand the meaning, but I think we could make it easier to read:

This patch fixes this issue by reallocating the device metadata only
if the device is not running.

WDYT?

> virtqueues, a vring state change notification is sent to
> notify the application of its disablement. Since the callback
> is supposed to be blocking, it is safe to reallocate it
> afterwards.


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David Marchand