From: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: "Dmitry Malloy (MESHCHANINOV)" <dmitrym@microsoft.com>,
Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile <navasile@linux.microsoft.com>,
Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.kadam@intel.com>, dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
dpdk stable <stable@dpdk.org>,
Qiming Yang <qiming.yang@intel.com>,
Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>,
Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang@intel.com>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 2/2] net/ice: fix leak on thread termination
Date: Fri, 7 May 2021 20:14:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210507201446.2d61d59b@sovereign> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8x9P5gN6rjDC8kgRW618qP2XKZhijn8oQZqvO_-=nFcVQ@mail.gmail.com>
2021-05-07 10:13 (UTC+0200), David Marchand:
> On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 11:45 AM David Marchand
> <david.marchand@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > A terminated pthread should be joined or detached so that its associated
> > resources are released.
> >
> > The "ice-reset-<vf_id>" threads are used to service some reset task in the
> > background, but they are never joined by the thread that created them.
> > The easiest solution is to detach new threads.
>
> Not so "easy" for Windows.
>
> I think I'll simply #ifndef WINDOWS my addition.
> Maybe the leak does not exist on Windows? but if it does, the
> situation won't change by doing nothing on Windows.
>
> If there is strong objection, I'll need some help to add a
> pthread_detach() wrapper in windows EAL.
> From my quick read at the API, I'd say I need to find the current
> thread handle (via OpenThread) then CloseHandle it.
> But does it work from "pthread_self()" ?
>
>
> Since a new API thread is in preparation, the "thread detaching" from
> the pthread API is something to consider.
> I could not find it in Narcissa series.
There is no leak.
On Windows, pthread_t is just a number, not a handle.
pthread_detach can be implemented as a no-op and added to new API.
See also: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100827-00/?p=13023
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-07 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-06 9:44 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Thread termination leak fixes David Marchand
2021-05-06 9:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] net/ark: fix leak on thread termination David Marchand
2021-05-11 17:55 ` Ed Czeck
2021-05-06 9:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] net/ice: " David Marchand
2021-05-06 10:31 ` Wang, Haiyue
2021-05-07 8:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " David Marchand
2021-05-07 17:14 ` Dmitry Kozlyuk [this message]
2021-05-11 11:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] Thread termination leak fixes David Marchand
2021-05-11 11:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] net/ark: fix leak on thread termination David Marchand
2021-05-11 11:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] net/ice: " David Marchand
2021-05-11 17:34 ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-05-11 21:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] Thread termination leak fixes Ferruh Yigit
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