[dpdk-dev] About 'CONFIG_RTE_EAL_UNBIND_PORTS'

[Tetsuya Mukawa <tetsuya.mukawa.1@gmail.com>]

Hi folks,

Someone, could you please let me know what is a case that I need to
enable 'CONFIG_RTE_EAL_UNBIND_PORTS'?

Also, if 'CONFIG_RTE_EAL_UNBIND_PORTS' is enabled, it seems an
application dumps error when it exits
This error is displayed by following code.

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pci_exit_process(struct rte_pci_device *dev)
{
..............
        if (close(dev->intr_handle.fd) == -1){
                RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Error closing interrupt handle\n");
                return -1;
        }

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I've confirmed when the issue occurs, always the fd is '0'.

I guess that the fd should be initialized as '-1', but actually it is
initialized as '0'.
So during finalization, pci_exit_process() may try to close STDIN.
(But I am not sure why closing STDIN returns error. STDIN might be
already closed by somewhere?)

Anyway, here is a patch I wrote to fix the issue.
Is this correct?
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diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_pci.c
b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_pci.c
index c793148..7bb03e9 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_pci.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_pci.c
@@ -519,6 +519,8 @@ pci_scan_one(const char *dirname, uint16_t domain,
uint8_t bus,
        dev->addr.devid = devid;
        dev->addr.function = function;

+       dev->intr_handle.fd = -1;
+
        /* get vendor id */
        rte_snprintf(filename, sizeof(filename), "%s/vendor", dirname);
        if (eal_parse_sysfs_value(filename, &tmp) < 0) {
@@ -718,7 +720,8 @@ pci_exit_process(struct rte_pci_device *dev)
                RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Error with munmap\n");
                return -1;
        }
-       if (close(dev->intr_handle.fd) == -1){
+       if ((dev->intr_handle.fd != -1) &&
+               (close(dev->intr_handle.fd) == -1)) {
                RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Error closing interrupt handle\n");
                return -1;
        }
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Also here is the procedure to reproduce the issue.

1. Prepare Fedora16(3.6.11-4.fc16.x86_64) as a guest OS.
2. Add 2 network interfaces(virtio-net) to the guest.
3. Compile dpdk-1.3.2r2 with CONFIG_RTE_EAL_UNBIND_PORTS' enabled on the guest.
4. Run testpmd using virtio-net-pmd on the guest.
5. Quit testpmd, and check error messages.

Best Regards,
Tetsuya Mukawa