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From: "Qiu, Michael" <michael.qiu@intel.com>
To: "Pattan, Reshma" <reshma.pattan@intel.com>,
	"Doherty, Declan" <declan.doherty@intel.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] librte_ether: remove	RTE_PROC_PRIMARY_OR_ERR_RET and RTE_PROC_PRIMARY_OR_RET
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 04:40:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <533710CFB86FA344BFBF2D6802E6028622F04D4E@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AEA2BF9852C6F48A459DA490692831FF8E2AD@IRSMSX109.ger.corp.intel.com>

On 12/25/2015 1:40 AM, Pattan, Reshma wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Qiu, Michael
>> On 12/23/2015 8:19 PM, Reshma Pattan wrote:
>>> Macros RTE_PROC_PRIMARY_OR_ERR_RET and
>> RTE_PROC_PRIMARY_OR_RET are
>>> blocking the secondary process from using the APIs.
>>> API access should be given to both secondary and primary.
>> Just as the log says, is it safe to do so?
>
> Hi,
>
> Some parts of the code still need these macros, which I am not sure yet. But as and when we identify those we have to add the macros to the needed places. 
> But it is safe to remove from start of function to allow secondary process to do device configuration and queue setups for vdev. 
> Please let me know if you know any of such cases where these macros should be added.

You you have removed almost all secondary check, and as I know, with
your patch, secondary almost has full control of a device, what's the
exact demand for secondary to have full API access?

It's a big change for DPDK I think, but patch set itself is good for me:)

Thanks,
Michael
> Thanks,
> Reshma
> 	
>


  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-28  4:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-23 12:19 Reshma Pattan
2015-12-23 12:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] librte_cryptodev: remove RTE_PROC_PRIMARY_OR_RET Reshma Pattan
2015-12-23 12:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] librte_ether: fix rte_eth_dev_configure Reshma Pattan
2015-12-24  8:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] librte_ether: remove RTE_PROC_PRIMARY_OR_ERR_RET and RTE_PROC_PRIMARY_OR_RET Qiu, Michael
2015-12-24 17:40   ` Pattan, Reshma
2015-12-28  4:40     ` Qiu, Michael [this message]
2016-01-05 10:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 " Reshma Pattan
2016-01-05 16:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] fix RTE_PROC_PRIMARY_OR_ERR_RET RTE_PROC_PRIMARY_OR_RET Reshma Pattan
2016-01-05 16:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/3] librte_ether: remove RTE_PROC_PRIMARY_OR_ERR_RET and RTE_PROC_PRIMARY_OR_RET Reshma Pattan
2016-01-05 16:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/3] librte_cryptodev: remove RTE_PROC_PRIMARY_OR_RET Reshma Pattan
2016-01-05 16:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] librte_ether: fix rte_eth_dev_configure Reshma Pattan
2016-01-06 13:41   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] fix RTE_PROC_PRIMARY_OR_ERR_RET RTE_PROC_PRIMARY_OR_RET Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-02-24 18:25     ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-02-05  9:43   ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-02-05 14:58     ` Pattan, Reshma
2016-02-05 15:05       ` Thomas Monjalon

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