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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Cc: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>,
	"Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Should we disallow running secondaries after primary has died?
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 08:01:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190726080116.68d766a3@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06bb50da-e56f-3bf0-920f-001480150f5d@intel.com>

On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 10:53:58 +0100
"Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> wrote:

> > 
> > NP to disallow it.
> > In fact, I think it would be easier for everyone just to drop current DPDK MP model,
> > and keep just standalone DPDK instances.  
> 
> That's the dream, but i don't think it'll ever come to fruition, at 
> least not without a huge push from the community.

There are several net appliances that require primary/secondary model.
I think initially during DPDK development it was sold as a feature to the
Network vendors.

It might be possible to clamp down on what API's are supported by
secondary process. For example, disallowing any control operations start/stop etc.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-26 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-26  9:05 Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-26  9:39 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-07-26  9:50   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2019-07-26  9:53     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-26 15:01       ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2019-07-26 15:44         ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-26 15:56           ` Lipiec, Herakliusz
2019-07-26 16:02             ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-26 16:44               ` Lipiec, Herakliusz
2019-07-26 16:57                 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-26 17:33                   ` Lipiec, Herakliusz

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