From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Gregory Etelson <gregory@weka.io>, dev@dpdk.org, users@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] IGB_UIO: PCI Resources Management
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:55:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <608e7dfd-5226-3e30-f43b-0fbe01aee16a@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3355891.l3I590SjcV@polaris>
On 12/9/2016 8:54 AM, Gregory Etelson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> IGB_UIO driver does not close port PCI activities after DPDK process exits.
> DPDK API provides rte_eth_dev_close() to manage port PCI,
> but it can be skipped if process receives SIGKILL signal
I guess I understand the problem.
> The patches below provide IGB_UIO release callback and IXGBEVF release function
But adding ixgbe specific code into igb_uio may not be good idea.
Can be anything done one upper layer, pci layer, generic to all drivers?
> With the patches, each time DPDK process terminates,
> UIO release callback will trigger port PCI close.
> On the down side, patched IGB_UIO can be bound to a single adapter type
>
> Regards,
> Gregory
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-12 11:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-09 8:54 Gregory Etelson
2017-01-12 11:55 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2017-01-12 12:12 ` [dpdk-users] [dpdk-dev] " Alejandro Lucero
2017-01-12 12:22 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-01-12 12:58 ` Alejandro Lucero
2017-01-13 1:51 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-01-13 2:04 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-01-13 5:33 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-01-13 11:10 ` Alejandro Lucero
2017-01-19 16:36 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-01-19 20:33 ` Alejandro Lucero
2017-01-19 15:59 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-01-19 16:09 ` George Prekas
2017-01-20 5:09 ` Tan, Jianfeng
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