Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/2] test/service: fix race condition on stopping lcore

[David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 4:30 PM Harry van Haaren
<harry.van.haaren@intel.com> wrote:
>
> This commit fixes a potential race condition in the tests
> where the lcore running a service would increment a counter
> that was already reset by the test-suite thread. The resulting
> race-condition incremented value could cause CI failures, as
> indicated by DPDK's CI.
>
> This patch fixes the race-condition by making use of the
> added rte_service_lcore_active() API, which indicates when
> a service-core is no longer in the service-core polling loop.
>
> The unit test makes use of the above function to detect when
> all statistics increments are done in the service-core thread,
> and then the unit test continues finalizing and checking state.
>
> Fixes: f28f3594ded2 ("service: add attribute API")
>
> Reported-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>

Series applied, thanks.


-- 
David Marchand