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From: "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
To: "David Marchand" <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	"Anatoly Burakov" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
	"Mattias Rönnblom" <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com>,
	"Stephen Hemminger" <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>, "Bruce Richardson" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	<stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v1 1/1] eal/random: fix random state initialization for non-eal threads
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023 11:02:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35D87C29@smartserver.smartshare.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8yST4hj8yJ1E83ANNYt2ZWGhseG48KqQ+6SigjibqsmtA@mail.gmail.com>

> From: David Marchand [mailto:david.marchand@redhat.com]
> Sent: Monday, 2 October 2023 10.26
> 
> Hello guys,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 2:07 PM Anatoly Burakov
> <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Currently, the rte_rand() state is initialized with seed, and each
> > rand state is initialized up until RTE_MAX_LCORE'th rand state. However,
> > rand state also has one extra rand state reserved for non-EAL threads,
> > which is not initialized. Fix it by initializing this extra state.
> >
> > Fixes: 3f002f069612 ("eal: replace libc-based random generation with LFSR")
> > Cc: mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com
> > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
> 
> We have two series for fixing related issues.
> 
> Stephen alternative patch 1 handles Anatoly fix here.
> https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=29449&state=%2A&archive=b
> oth
> 
> I see Anatoly was acked by Mattias and Morten, though Stephen
> (RTE_DIM) fix is more elegant.
> How do you guys want me to proceed?

Please use patch 1 from Stephen, which I have now thoroughly reviewed, instead of this patch from Anatoly.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-02  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-28 12:06 Anatoly Burakov
2023-08-28 12:22 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2023-08-28 12:48   ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-02  8:25 ` David Marchand
2023-10-02  9:02   ` Morten Brørup [this message]
2023-10-02 12:22   ` Mattias Rönnblom
2023-10-04 11:37   ` Burakov, Anatoly

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