Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] net/mlx5: fix secondary process resources release

[Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@mellanox.com>]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suanming Mou <suanmingm@mellanox.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020 10:00 AM
> To: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>; Matan Azrad
> <matan@mellanox.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@mellanox.com>; stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH v2] net/mlx5: fix secondary process resources release
> 
> When secondary process starts, it will allocate its own process private
> data, and also does remap to UAR register of the Tx queue. Once the
> secondary process exits, these resources should be released accordingly.
> And the shared resources owned by primary should not be touched.
> 
> Currently, once one port in the secondary process spawn failed, all the
> other spawned ports will also be released during process exits. However,
> the mlx5_dev_close() function does not add the cases for secondary
> process, it means call the mlx5_dev_close() function directly in
> secondary process releases the resources it should not touch.
> 
> Add the case for secondary process release to its own resources in
> mlx5_dev_close() function to help it quits gracefully.
> 
> Fixes: 942d13e6e7d1 ("net/mlx5: fix sharing context destroy order")
> Fixes: 3a8207423a0f ("net/mlx5: close all ports on remove")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suanming Mou <suanmingm@mellanox.com>
> Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
> ---
> v2: fix more issues in secondary process.
> ---
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c      | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> --------


Patch applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh