[dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] net/mlx5: close tools socket with the last device

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 10:55 AM Dmitry Kozlyuk <dkozlyuk at nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> MLX5 PMD exposes a socket for external tools to dump port state.
> Socket events are listened using an interrupt source of EXT type.
> The socket was closed and the interrupt callback was unregistered
> at program exit, which is incorrect because DPDK could be already
> shut down at this point. Move actions performed at program exit
> to the moment the last MLX5 port is closed. The socket will be opened
> again if later a new MLX5 device is plugged in and probed.
> Also fix comments that were deceisively talking
> about secondary processes instead of external tools.

+1 for fixing those comments.

>
> Fixes: e6cdc54cc0ef ("net/mlx5: add socket server for external tools")
> Cc: Xueming Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
> Reported-by: Harman Kalra <hkalra at marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dkozlyuk at nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>

The fix lgtm, thanks.

There is a separate issue I spotted while reviewing.
I'll send a separate fix.


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David Marchand