Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] app/testpmd: fix failsafe PMD failure on exit

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

27/05/2018 06:06, Yuanhan Liu:
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 07:35:08PM +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> > +			/*
> > +			 * This is a workaround to fix a virtio-user issue that
> > +			 * requires to call clean-up routine to remove existing
> > +			 * socket.
> 
> I came across this patch while I was cherry-picking patches to 17.11.4
> release. And this patch seems wrong to me.

Yes it is far from perfect.

> Any particular reason why the socket removal can not be done in virtio-user
> pmd, say at its close method?

The socket is removed in the remove function of the driver.
The right fix is to call the remove functions of all driver from
the EAL cleanup function.
We have decided of this last minute workaround for testpmd
because we need it for testing convenience, but do not want to
take any risk with a proper fix as it is really late for that.


> > +			 * This workaround valid only for testpmd, needs a fix
> > +			 * valid for all applications.
> > +			 * TODO: Implement proper resource cleanup
> > +			 */
> > +			device = rte_eth_devices[pt_id].device;
> > +			if (device && !strcmp(device->driver->name, "net_virtio_user"))
> >  				detach_port(pt_id);
> >  		}
> >  	}
>