From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by dpdk.space (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39374A05D3 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:11:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D757958FA; Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:11:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com (out3-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0F3D4D3A; Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:11:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5211A21C9C; Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:11:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:11:45 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; s=mesmtp; bh=4Qqo9W+MJNiN5A46g4s8RWlqZ5u5P6Uo9rpADoXUSnw=; b=NwCSPAWeAtY7 WmNnmizDsUjjvq/8QPCuvtNt1VE32tMGgV26j19XTqxU3kPDzrlIY4v4Z/T1Sg/e LLpJaDQOwGmswHG9RfgmP5lm9reygCOF1MAduUkBKtmudPK+8K0vtLpGMR6j0Ba1 jsYMyl32EWPu5jpNVP76JG+Z6ervcRQ= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-proxy:x-me-proxy:x-me-sender:x-me-sender :x-sasl-enc; s=fm2; bh=4Qqo9W+MJNiN5A46g4s8RWlqZ5u5P6Uo9rpADoXUS nw=; b=os7HlkJP7STkRzbI9IxpjtMzxFttUmue2meEZE1LAi0jXFiGTQPXm2y6q vKinRSgyyCbpiX+8cF6eAMn+n9uGwoT2K0hnYGY94UvgxOBi7fqMxnDMFX8yWggj moJ2oB0JZCR/0dl3JsJcJoikKy/BAxuiXpuzWXGUlWA5PX06BVpOSK8i7p51rOBR rYX1xsaHqstzcR0Y+iPFMZjGpK5iqzjlDycNnqPB1BjASMsnQibHKL0G6wzTi+t6 SKvd5Akx6tiKiOe+Av6TYB2Zr2xnaBMvWvfYgMf1OJUeYtYR62htiJGfKOnRQM+G O9txSVBoczpySDPUaH785gzuGQKSA== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedutddrkedvgddutdegucetufdoteggodetrfdotf fvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuhfgrshhtofgrihhlpdfqfgfvpdfurfetoffkrfgpnffqhgen uceurghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucesvcftvggtihhpihgvnhhtshculddquddttddmne cujfgurhephffvufffkfgjfhgggfgtsehtufertddttddvnecuhfhrohhmpefvhhhomhgr shcuofhonhhjrghlohhnuceothhhohhmrghssehmohhnjhgrlhhonhdrnhgvtheqnecukf hppeejjedrudefgedrvddtfedrudekgeenucfrrghrrghmpehmrghilhhfrhhomhepthhh ohhmrghssehmohhnjhgrlhhonhdrnhgvthenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedt X-ME-Proxy: Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 742E010394; Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:11:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Darek Stojaczyk Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Qi Zhang , Anatoly Burakov , stable@dpdk.org Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:11:41 +0100 Message-ID: <2545420.xP4CxeWPSp@xps> In-Reply-To: <20190326184331.13850-1-dariusz.stojaczyk@intel.com> References: <20190326184331.13850-1-dariusz.stojaczyk@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: initialize alarms early X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: stable-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "stable" 26/03/2019 19:43, Darek Stojaczyk: > We currently initialize rte_alarms after starting > to listen for IPC hotplug requests, which gives > us a data race window. Upon receiving such hotplug > request we always try to set an alarm and this > obviously doesn't work if the alarms weren't > initialized yet. > > To fix it, we initialize alarms before starting > to listen for IPC hotplug messages. Specifically, > we move rte_eal_alarm_init() right after > rte_eal_intr_init() as it makes some sense to > keep those two close to each other. I wonder which regression it will bring :) The experience shows that we cannot touch this function without introducing a regression. Please check twice. > Fixes: 244d5130719c ("eal: enable hotplug on multi-process") > Cc: Qi Zhang > Cc: Anatoly Burakov > Cc: stable@dpdk.org > > Signed-off-by: Darek Stojaczyk > --- > lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal.c | 12 ++++++------ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) You probably need to update the FreeBSD version too.