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 <[email protected]>
> Cc: Anatoly Burakov <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
>
> Signed-off-by: Darek Stojaczyk <[email protected]>
> ---
> lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal.c | 12 ++++++------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
You probably need to update the FreeBSD version too.
