From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Gaetan Rivet <grive@u256.net>, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/3] net/failsafe: avoid crash on malformed eth_dev
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 18:16:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <654aa5c6-d25c-b67a-2d15-491c508df706@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16944acc809c06be57c5a489ee7143657c4d8c6f.1588705694.git.grive@u256.net>
On 5/5/2020 8:10 PM, Gaetan Rivet wrote:
> Some PMD do not respect the eth_dev API when allocating their
> rte_eth_dev. As a result, on device add event resulting from
> rte_eth_dev_probing_finish() call, the eth_dev processed is incomplete.
>
> The segfault is a good way to focus the developer on the issue, but does
> not inspire confidence. Instead, warn the user of the error repeatedly.
>
> The failsafe PMD can warn of the issue and continue. It will repeatedly
> attempt to initialize the failed port and complain about it, which
> should result in the same developer focus but with less crashing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gaetan Rivet <grive@u256.net>
Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-06 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-27 10:44 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/failsafe: fix fd leak wangyunjian
2020-04-27 11:12 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2020-04-27 16:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-03 11:33 ` Ali Alnubani
2020-05-04 16:22 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2020-05-04 16:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-05-05 9:47 ` Ali Alnubani
2020-05-05 9:14 ` Ali Alnubani
2020-05-05 18:35 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2020-05-05 19:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/3] failsafe & ring fixes Gaetan Rivet
2020-05-05 19:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/3] net/failsafe: avoid crash on malformed eth_dev Gaetan Rivet
2020-05-06 17:16 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2020-05-05 19:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 2/3] net/ring: fix eth_dev device pointer on allocation Gaetan Rivet
2020-05-06 11:48 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-06 12:33 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2020-05-06 13:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-06 17:32 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2020-05-06 18:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Gaetan Rivet
2020-05-08 11:00 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-11 16:54 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-05 19:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 3/3] net/failsafe: fix default service proxy state Gaetan Rivet
2020-05-06 8:58 ` Ali Alnubani
2020-05-06 17:16 ` Ferruh Yigit
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