Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] app/testpmd: fix pmd_test_exit function for vdevs

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 5/19/2018 3:19 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 18/05/2018 18:29, Ferruh Yigit:
>> On 5/18/2018 4:55 PM, Matan Azrad wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> While this patch also applied I don't understand it.
>>> Is it mandatory for each PMD to free all its resources in dev_close()?
>>> Or it should be done by the rte_device remove function?
>>>
>>> If the resource cleanup should be done by the remove function I think it
>>> should be called for all the devices (pci, vdev, etc).
>>>
>>> Is there an exit function for EAL to clean rte_eal_init()? If no, looks like we need it...
>>
>> Hi Matan,
>>
>> I believe there is a gap in resource cleanup.
>> dev_close() it not for resource cleanup, it should be in PMD remove() functions,
>> and PMDs have it. The problem is remove path is not called in application exit.
>>
>> As far as I know there is no simple API to clean the resources, having it may
>> help application to do the cleanup.
>>
>> I have seen the rte_eal_cleanup() API by Harry, that can be extended to cover
>> PMD resource cleanup if there is enough motivation for it.
> 
> Yes, EAL resources should be removed by the function rte_eal_cleanup().
> And ethdev ports must be removed by rte_eth_dev_close().

There is probe() and remove() functions.
There is dev_close devops, called by rte_eth_dev_close(), but there is no open()
or equivalent.

For example an ethdev allocated its private data during probe(), if
rte_eth_dev_close() free it, how can a new ethdev can be allocated?