Hi matan and Slava: I observed dpdk coredump when I used mlx5 NIC send packets in secondary process: Thread 6 received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to LWP 593263] 0x00007ffff7f5b44e in rte_eth_tx_burst (port_id=0, queue_id=3, tx_pkts=0x7fffefff7f28, nb_pkts=1) at /usr/local/include/rte_ethdev.h:5777 5777 qd = p->txq.data[queue_id]; (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff7f5b44e in rte_eth_tx_burst (port_id=0, queue_id=3, tx_pkts=0x7fffefff7f28, nb_pkts=1) at /usr/local/include/rte_ethdev.h:5777 #1 0x00007ffff7f5ed7a in vdev_tx_xmit (stack=0x7fffe8000b20, pkts=0x7fffefff7f28, nr_pkts=1) at netif/lstack_vdev.c:142 #2 0x00007ffff7f4bd77 in eth_dev_output (netif=0x7fffe8002528, pbuf=0x0) at netif/lstack_ethdev.c:876 #3 0x00007ffff7e84ab8 in etharp_raw (netif=0x7fffe8002528, ethsrc_addr=0x7fffe8002564, ethdst_addr=0x7ffff7f775da , hwsrc_addr=0x7fffe8002564, ipsrc_addr=0x7fffe8002530, hwdst_addr=0x7ffff7f775d4 , ipdst_addr=0x7fffe8002530, opcode=1) at core/ipv4/etharp.c:1179 #4 0x00007ffff7e84ec8 in etharp_request_dst (hw_dst_addr=, ipaddr=, netif=) at core/ipv4/etharp.c:1206 #5 etharp_request (netif=, ipaddr=) at core/ipv4/etharp.c:1224 (gdb) p *p $1 = {rx_pkt_burst = 0x7ffff63288c0 , rx_queue_count = 0x0, rx_descriptor_status = 0x7ffff61709d0 , rxq = {data = 0x0, clbk = 0x7ffff6e515a8 }, reserved1 = {0, 0, 0}, tx_pkt_burst = 0x7ffff623ba60 , tx_pkt_prepare = 0x0, tx_descriptor_status = 0x7ffff618a870 , txq = {data = 0x0, clbk = 0x7ffff6e535a8 }, reserved2 = {0, 0, 0}} (gdb) p p->txq.data $2 = (void **) 0x0 (gdb) P->txq.data is NULL I used dpdk-21.11. (https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk/tree/v22.11), I looked up the stable branch, and there doesn't seem to be a relevant bugfix patch. The same app does not have this coredump on i40e/ixgbe NIC. Thanks