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From: "Van Haaren, Harry" <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eal: add function to check if primary proc
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 09:02:41 +0000
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> From: Qiu, Michael
> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 6:14 AM
> To: Van Haaren, Harry <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>; david.marchand@6wind.=
com
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: add function to check if primary pro=
c alive
> <snip>
> As we could start up many primaries, how does your secondary process
> work with them?

When a primary process initializes, the location of the config file is impo=
rtant. The default is /var/run/.rte_config

To run multiple primary processes, the --file-prefix=3D option is used to s=
pecific a custom location for the config file. Eg: --file-prefix=3Dtesting =
   /var/run/.testing_config

The rte_eal_check_primary_alive(const char*) function takes a char* paramet=
er - this is the location of the config file that the secondary process wil=
l wait for. Setting it to the correct value will make this secondary proces=
s wait for the corresponding primary process.

Regards, -Harry