From: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>, <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] ethdev: complete closing to free all resources
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:03:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47678eef-0260-302a-b46b-2cdf861322a6@solarflare.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180907233929.21950-1-thomas@monjalon.net>
On 09/08/2018 02:39 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> After closing a port, it cannot be restarted.
> So there is no reason to not free all associated resources.
>
> The last step was done with rte_eth_dev_detach() which is deprecated.
> Instead of removing the associated rte_device, the driver should check
> if no more port (ethdev, cryptodev, etc) is still open for the device.
> Then the device resources can be freed by the driver inside the
> dev_close() driver callback operation.
>
> The last ethdev freeing (dev_private and final release), which were done
> by rte_eth_dev_detach(), are now done at the end of rte_eth_dev_close().
For me, it sounds more logical to kill dev_close and keep detach.
IMHO, dev_close is artificial and hardly useful. detach is a local pair
to attach.
Anyway it requires update of all drivers as I understand.
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> ---
> This patch contains only the change in the close function as RFC.
>
> This idea was presented at Dublin during the "hotplug talk".
> ---
> lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c | 5 +++++
> lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h | 5 +++--
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
> index 4c3202505..071fcbd23 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
> @@ -1358,6 +1358,7 @@ void
> rte_eth_dev_close(uint16_t port_id)
> {
> struct rte_eth_dev *dev;
> + struct rte_bus *bus;
>
> RTE_ETH_VALID_PORTID_OR_RET(port_id);
> dev = &rte_eth_devices[port_id];
> @@ -1372,6 +1373,10 @@ rte_eth_dev_close(uint16_t port_id)
> dev->data->nb_tx_queues = 0;
> rte_free(dev->data->tx_queues);
> dev->data->tx_queues = NULL;
> +
> + rte_free(dev->data->dev_private);
> +
> + rte_eth_dev_release_port(dev);
> }
>
> int
> diff --git a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> index 7070e9ab4..37a757a7a 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> @@ -1797,8 +1797,9 @@ int rte_eth_dev_set_link_down(uint16_t port_id);
>
> /**
> * Close a stopped Ethernet device. The device cannot be restarted!
> - * The function frees all resources except for needed by the
> - * closed state. To free these resources, call rte_eth_dev_detach().
> + * The function frees all port resources.
> + * If there is no more port associated with the underlying device,
> + * the driver should free the device resources.
> *
> * @param port_id
> * The port identifier of the Ethernet device.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-10 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-07 23:39 Thomas Monjalon
2018-09-10 8:03 ` Andrew Rybchenko [this message]
2018-09-10 8:42 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-09-10 8:54 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-09-12 14:57 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-09-12 15:44 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-09-28 12:46 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-10-09 22:00 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-09 22:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] ethdev: complete closing of port Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-10 6:15 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-10-10 7:44 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-10 7:50 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-10-10 8:39 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-10 15:01 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-10-10 16:43 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-10 18:01 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-10-10 19:03 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-14 23:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] ethdev port freeing Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-14 23:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] ethdev: free all common data when releasing port Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-16 11:16 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-10-16 12:22 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-16 12:47 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-10-16 12:52 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-16 12:55 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-10-14 23:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] ethdev: complete closing of port Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-16 11:24 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-10-16 12:25 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-17 1:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] ethdev port freeing Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-17 1:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] app/testpmd: allow detaching a port not closed Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-17 2:06 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-17 6:26 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-10-17 8:20 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-17 10:30 ` Iremonger, Bernard
2018-10-17 11:33 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-17 1:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/4] ethdev: free all common data when releasing port Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-17 7:13 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-10-17 8:22 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-17 1:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/4] ethdev: remove release function for secondary process Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-17 7:25 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-10-17 9:27 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-17 1:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/4] ethdev: complete closing of port Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-17 2:12 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-17 10:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] ethdev port freeing Shreyansh Jain
2018-10-17 11:31 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-18 1:23 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/6] " Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-18 1:23 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/6] app/testpmd: fix ports list after removing several at once Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-18 10:40 ` Iremonger, Bernard
2018-10-18 11:29 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-18 11:41 ` Iremonger, Bernard
2018-10-18 14:21 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-18 16:42 ` Iremonger, Bernard
2018-10-18 17:06 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-18 11:49 ` Wisam Monther
2018-10-18 13:22 ` Iremonger, Bernard
2018-10-18 1:23 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/6] app/testpmd: allow detaching a port not closed Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-18 7:45 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-10-18 10:51 ` Iremonger, Bernard
2018-10-18 11:24 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-18 1:23 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/6] ethdev: fix doxygen comments of shared data fields Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-18 7:11 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-10-18 1:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/6] ethdev: free all common data when releasing port Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-18 7:13 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-10-18 1:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 5/6] ethdev: remove release function for secondary process Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-18 7:15 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-10-18 1:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 6/6] ethdev: complete closing of port Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-18 8:33 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-10-18 9:32 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-19 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/6] ethdev port freeing Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-19 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/6] app/testpmd: update port list for multiple removals Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-19 14:32 ` Iremonger, Bernard
2018-10-19 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/6] app/testpmd: allow detaching a port not closed Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-19 14:32 ` Iremonger, Bernard
2018-10-19 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 3/6] ethdev: fix doxygen comments of shared data fields Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-19 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 4/6] ethdev: free all common data when releasing port Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-19 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 5/6] ethdev: remove release function for secondary process Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-19 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 6/6] ethdev: complete closing of port Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-19 10:13 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-10-22 15:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/6] ethdev port freeing Ferruh Yigit
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