[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] eal/freebsd: lock memory device to prevent conflicts

[David Marchand]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 4:40 PM Burakov, Anatoly
<anatoly.burakov at intel.com> wrote:
> >> I'm a bit uneasy with --in-memory mode pretending to work on
> >> FreeBSD and Windows, but that's a separate problem :)
> >
> > Yes, it is, though one that does belong is the same area as this one. The
> > "fix" is probably to just print a warning when --in-memory is used,
> > informing the user that the flag is ignored and then continue.
> > Alternatively we can error out, but I think the warn+continue is better,
> > myself.
>
> I think erroring out is better. The feature is intended to work a
> certain way, so if we can't guarantee that it does, we can't pretend it
> is "supported" or "is working". But again, irrelevant to this patch :)
>

Please, can you review
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20210913140848.184928-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com/
?
Thanks.


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David Marchand