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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: Lukasz Wojciechowski <l.wojciechow@partner.samsung.com>
Cc: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	 "stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>,
	"Van Haaren, Harry" <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal: fix lcore state bug
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 19:10:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8xWa6WZy_GAZ2yrY6qrCWbyjGaMWYjLhXUjpDd2QnM+bQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR11MB3143C1108734B55D30E26B37D7670@BYAPR11MB3143.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 4:52 PM Van Haaren, Harry
<harry.van.haaren@intel.com> wrote:
> > The rte_service_lcore_reset_all function stops execution of services
> > on all lcores and switches them back from ROLE_SERVICE to ROLE_RTE.
> > However the thread loop for slave lcores (eal_thread_loop) distincts these
> > roles to set lcore state after processing delegated function.
> > It sets WAIT state for ROLE_SERVICE, but FINISHED for ROLE_RTE.
> > So changing the role to RTE before stopping work in slave lcores
> > causes lcores to end in FINISHED state. That is why the rte_eal_lcore_wait
> > must be run after rte_service_lcore_reset_all to bring back lcores to
> > launchable (WAIT) state.
> > This has been fixed in test app and clarified in API documentation.
> >
> > Setting the state to WAIT in rte_service_runner_func is premature
> > as the rte_service_runner_func function is still a part of the lcore
> > function delegated to slave lcore. The state is overwritten anyway in
> > slave lcore thread loop. This premature setting state to WAIT might
> > however cause rte_eal_lcore_wait, that was called by the application,
> > to return before slave lcore thread set the FINISHED state. That's
> > why it is removed from librte_eal rte_service_runner_func function.

Thanks for the explanation and fix.

> >
> > Bugzilla ID: 464
> > Fixes: 21698354c832 ("service: introduce service cores concept")
> > Fixes: f038a81e1c56 ("service: add unit tests")
> > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> >

Reported-by: Sarosh Arif <sarosh.arif@emumba.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Lukasz Wojciechowski <l.wojciechow@partner.samsung.com>
> Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>

Applied, thanks Lukasz.


-- 
David Marchand


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-08 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20200428012204eucas1p120a84e501d0d64145c21476cd2562f36@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2020-04-28  1:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Lukasz Wojciechowski
2020-04-29  3:11   ` Ruifeng Wang
2020-04-29 15:07   ` Phil Yang
2020-04-29 21:32     ` Lukasz Wojciechowski
2020-04-30  2:54       ` Phil Yang
2020-04-30  9:06         ` Lukasz Wojciechowski
2020-05-08 16:12         ` Van Haaren, Harry
2020-05-08 17:04           ` Lukasz Wojciechowski
2020-05-18 18:25   ` Lukasz Wojciechowski
2020-05-18 18:39     ` David Marchand
2020-05-18 18:43       ` Lukasz Wojciechowski
2020-05-20 11:40         ` Van Haaren, Harry
2020-05-20 12:47           ` Lukasz Wojciechowski
     [not found]   ` <CGME20200708133748eucas1p2dbe34d8605d8f618559daee9cbeaa73d@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
2020-07-08 13:37     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Lukasz Wojciechowski
2020-07-08 14:52       ` Van Haaren, Harry
2020-07-08 17:10         ` David Marchand [this message]
2020-07-08 19:37           ` Lukasz Wojciechowski

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