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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: dpdk stable <stable@dpdk.org>, dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
	Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>,
	Michael Santana <msantana@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] test/eal: do not scan PCI devices for memory tests
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 11:51:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8xxgjnxacyrihQRAoDkmk36Y+ApJBMTY-RuBcX5B6k29w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2288744.0SrN437FYt@xps>

On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 10:57 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
>
> 01/08/2019 14:27, David Marchand:
> > The memory tests currently check that, for normal mode (not legacy mode),
> > there is no memory left behind when exiting.
>
> I think this is the real bug:
> we are checking a behaviour that we cannot achieve currently.
>
> > The problem is that if a ethdev port is allocated when scanning pci
> > devices (even if the driver probe fails like when you have a virtio
> > management interface attached to the kernel), on exit, dpdk won't free
> > the associated memory since ethdev never frees the ethdev memzone.
>
> As you said in this thread, we could think about how to free it properly
> in a future release.
> For 19.08, I would suggest to disable the test with a comment
> explaining the reason.

For 19.08, as long as we test shared builds in the CI, then it just
"works", because the net drivers are not loaded.
No net driver, no ethdev leak ;-)


-- 
David Marchand

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-03  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-01 12:27 [dpdk-dev] " David Marchand
2019-08-01 12:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " David Marchand
2019-08-01 13:22   ` Gaëtan Rivet
2019-08-01 13:24     ` David Marchand
2019-08-01 13:26       ` David Marchand
2019-08-02 11:13   ` David Marchand
2019-08-02 13:37   ` Aaron Conole
2019-08-02 13:45     ` David Marchand
2019-08-02 20:57 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-08-03  9:51   ` David Marchand [this message]
2019-08-05 10:19     ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-08-08 11:23       ` David Marchand

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