From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Marchand Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/2] eal: add function to check primary alive Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 12:07:48 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1457456825-28667-1-git-send-email-harry.van.haaren@intel.com> <1457518362-32762-1-git-send-email-harry.van.haaren@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" To: sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com Return-path: Received: from mail-ob0-f169.google.com (mail-ob0-f169.google.com [209.85.214.169]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3DA72BA9 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 12:08:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-ob0-f169.google.com with SMTP id fp4so42962409obb.2 for ; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 03:08:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1457518362-32762-1-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" On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Harry van Haaren wrote: > > 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. Sergio, please can you have a look at this patchset ? Thanks. -- David Marchand