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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Ricardo Roldan <rroldan@bequant.com>
Cc: users@dpdk.org, Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-users] attach/detach on secondary process
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 22:00:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1581834.O1SaQGJnzN@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171213090952.495bfb1b@xeon-e3>

13/12/2017 18:09, Stephen Hemminger:
> Many DPDK drivers require that setup and initialization be done by
> the primary process. This is mostly to avoid dealing with concurrency since
> there can be multiple secondary processes.

I think we should consider this limitation as a bug.
We must allow a secondary process to initialize a device.
The race in device creation must be fixed.

       reply	other threads:[~2017-12-13 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]   ` <20171213090952.495bfb1b@xeon-e3>
2017-12-13 21:00     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2017-12-13 21:10       ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-13 21:20         ` Thomas Monjalon

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