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From: Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.kadam@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 08/10] eal: add minimum viable code for
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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 14:46:45 -0700
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On 4/2/2019 2:38 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 02/04/2019 23:21, Pallavi Kadam:
>> On 4/2/2019 1:06 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>> 02/04/2019 05:54, Anand Rawat:
>>>> Add windows specific logic for eal.c, eal_lcore.c,
>>>> eal_debug.c and eal_thread.c. Updated header files to
>>>> contain suitable function declaractions.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Anand Rawat <anand.rawat@intel.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.kadam@intel.com>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Jeff Shaw <jeffrey.b.shaw@intel.com>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Ranjit Menon <ranjit.menon@intel.com>
>>>> ---
>>> [...]
>>>> +		/*
>>>> +		 * create communication pipes between master thread
>>>> +		 * and children
>>>> +		 */
>>>> +		if (_pipe(lcore_config[i].pipe_master2slave,
>>>> +			sizeof(char), _O_BINARY) < 0)
>>>> +			rte_panic("Cannot create pipe\n");
>>> rte_panic should be used only in applications, not in libraries.
>>> The application can do something in case of DPDK failure.
>>> Please remove all calls to rte_panic() during next weeks, thanks.
>> Ok, will try to incorporate in v9. Just curious, is this the major issue?
>>
>> Calls to rte_panic() can be seen in linux/eal and freebsd/eal.
> No, there is a misunderstanding.
> I am merging v8 and I am asking for a new patch to remove these calls.
>
> By the way, I am fixing patch 3, please check my comment on this patch.
Got it. Thanks.
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