Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 10/11] net/failsafe: fix sub-device ownership race

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

09/05/2018 14:41, Gaëtan Rivet:
> > Fixes: a46f8d584eb8 ("net/failsafe: add fail-safe PMD")
> 
> This fix is relying on the RTE_ETH_EVENT_NEW, an API that I think is not
> meant to be backported in the stable release that would be targetted by
> this commit id.

This event was added in 18.02. So yes it can be backported.

> I think this fix is useless without the rest of this series, so I don't
> know what is exactly planned about the rest (whether it is backported,
> and where), but I would only CC stable if this is planned, and only as
> soon as the relevant APIs are introduced.

All the series is candidate for 18.02 backport.


> >  static int
> >  fs_ethdev_portid_get(const char *name, uint16_t *port_id)
> >  {
> > -	uint16_t pid;
> > +	uint32_t pid;
> 
> I do not see why the port_id is made uint32_t? Is there a reason?

Copying Matan's answer:
"
The maximum port id number can be 0xffff.
In this case the loop will be infinite if we use uint16 to iterate over all the ports.
"