From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
To: "Charles (Chas) Williams" <ciwillia@brocade.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, mtetsuyah@gmail.com, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v4 1/2] net/vhost: create datagram sockets immediately
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 16:06:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170104080631.GM21228@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1483460563-5003-1-git-send-email-ciwillia@brocade.com>
On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 11:22:42AM -0500, Charles (Chas) Williams wrote:
> If you create a vhost server device, it doesn't create the actual datagram
> socket until you call .dev_start(). If you call .dev_stop() is also
> deletes those sockets. For QEMU clients, this is a problem since QEMU
> doesn't know how to re-attach to datagram sockets that have gone away.
>
> To fix this, register and unregister the datagram sockets during device
> creation and removal.
>
> Fixes: ee584e9710b9 ("vhost: add driver on top of the library")
Both patches applied to dpdk-next-virtio. Thanks!
Note that we prefer a title of "prefix: fix ..." for bug fixing patch.
For this reason, I have changed the title for you while apply:
net/vhost: fix socket file being deleted on dev stop
Also, stable is cc'ed.
--yliu
parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-04 8:04 UTC|newest]
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