From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Raz Amir <razamir22@gmail.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Crash related to virtio NICs in DPDK 2.0.0 on Freebsd 10.1 VM
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:46:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19871442.I62j3xGbVC@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <145601d07214$20aa04b0$61fe0e10$@gmail.com>
2015-04-08 18:53, Raz Amir:
> The issues happens also in dpdk 1.8.0, and related to patch
> http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/239/
>
> Adding Thomas and David to the thread and I will appreciate your input.
>
> The patch comes to solve a file descriptor leak in the bsdapp version of
> rte_eal_iopl_init after opening the /dev/io device.
>
> Seems like this isn't a file descriptor leak, and it should remain open - as
> I wrote below, I am using virtio.
Thanks for the bug report.
It seems there was no validation for FreeBSD with virtio.
> After removing it and testing the crash was resolved.
>
> Any objection for removing the close(fd) that was added at dpdk 1.8.0?
No, there was a doubt because the man page was not clear.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=io&sektion=4
In case you submit a patch, please add this line:
Fixes: 8a312224bcde ("eal/bsd: fix fd leak")
> Are there scenarios that might be impacted by removing it?
I don't think so.
Thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-13 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-07 15:41 Raz Amir
2015-04-08 15:53 ` Raz Amir
2015-04-13 7:56 ` Raz Amir
2015-04-13 10:46 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2015-04-13 11:54 ` Raz Amir
2015-04-14 2:25 ` Ouyang, Changchun
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