Created attachment 171 [details] patch to avoid hanging Hello, I have been testing the distributor example using one interface and five cores - ./build/distributor_app -l 10-14 -- -p 1. This leaves me one worker thread. I noticed the application often hangs after I supply SIGINT and I have to manually kill the process. I added some additional debugging and discovered the distributor core is not returning from rte_distributor_flush(). Looking inside that function, I see the loop waiting for total_outstanding() to return 0. I believe that requires all workers to have returned all in-flight packets? Moving to the worker core, it calls rte_distributor_get_pkt(), does its processing, then loops to the start of the while(!quit_signal_work) block. When exiting, this is true, so it immediately exits the loop - without returning the last batch of packets. I believe this is what is causing the distributor core to fail to exit as it continues to loop waiting for workers to return their buffers. As a test, I added a call to rte_distributor_return_pkt(d, id, buf, num) outside the worker while() loop but before the thread exits. I've run many tests and have not seen the process hang once.
Looking at the app/test/test_distributor.c file, it does exactly what I described above for the distributor example - rte_distributor_get_pkt() calls in the loop, then rte_distributor_return_pkt() outside the loop.