From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] eal: add function to check primary alive Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:17:36 +0100 Message-ID: <11057787.gk36pydPKi@xps13> References: <1457518362-32762-1-git-send-email-harry.van.haaren@intel.com> <1457530645-14776-1-git-send-email-harry.van.haaren@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Harry van Haaren Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f45.google.com (mail-wm0-f45.google.com [74.125.82.45]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E582B9A for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 16:19:17 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-wm0-f45.google.com with SMTP id p65so196976971wmp.1 for ; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 07:19:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1457530645-14776-1-git-send-email-harry.van.haaren@intel.com> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 2016-03-09 13:37, Harry van Haaren: > The first patch of this patchset contains a fix for EAL PCI probing, > to avoid a race-condition where a primary and secondary probe PCI > devices at the same time. > > The second patch adds a function that can be polled by a process to > detect if a DPDK primary process is alive. This function does not > rely on rte_eal_init(), as this uses the EAL and thus stops a > primary from starting. > > The functionality provided by this patch is very useful for providing > additional services to DPDK primary applications such as monitoring > statistics and performing fault detection. Applied, thanks