[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/7] checking for owned ports in portmask

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

The failsafe, bonding, and netvsc PMD use eth dev port ownership
to control sub devices. These sub devices are hidden in the
normal iteration over ports but some applications use a direct
port mask.  In these cases, user may still (incorrectly) try
to directly use the sub devices.

This patch set introduces a helper function to check if
a port is under ownership. And the follow on patches use that.

IMHO this should not be marked as experimental and done as
a bug fix back to DPDK 18.11 because then it will get picked
up in LTS and users won't run into it on Azure.

An alternative proposed in earlier discussion is to have
each application try and own the port. But this solution would
be more invasive, and does not handle the case if secondary process
exits prematurely without releasing ownership. It makes more
sense to keep the concept of ownership as strictly part of
the device model and not part of the application layer.

Stephen Hemminger (7):
  ethdev: add function to test port ownership
  examples/l2fwd-cat: block attempts to use owned ports
  examples/l3fwd: block attempts to use owned ports
  examples/l3fwd-acl: block attempts to use owned ports
  examples/l3fwd-power: block attempts to use owned ports
  examples/tep_termination: block attempts to use owned ports
  examples/vhost: block attempts to use owned ports

 examples/l2fwd-cat/Makefile              |  2 ++
 examples/l2fwd-cat/l2fwd-cat.c           |  3 +++
 examples/l2fwd-cat/meson.build           |  1 +
 examples/l3fwd-acl/Makefile              |  3 +++
 examples/l3fwd-acl/main.c                |  4 ++++
 examples/l3fwd-acl/meson.build           |  1 +
 examples/l3fwd-power/main.c              |  4 ++++
 examples/l3fwd/Makefile                  |  3 +++
 examples/l3fwd/main.c                    |  4 ++++
 examples/l3fwd/meson.build               |  1 +
 examples/tep_termination/Makefile        |  2 ++
 examples/tep_termination/main.c          |  2 +-
 examples/tep_termination/meson.build     |  1 +
 examples/vhost/main.c                    |  2 +-
 lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c           |  9 +++++++++
 lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h           | 15 +++++++++++++++
 lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev_version.map |  3 +++
 17 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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