On 10/28/2021 9:34 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
The port ownership concept was introduced in ethdev in DPDK 18.02.
Not sure it is used by applications except those using failsafe or netvsc.
It can also be used by libraries or applications to sort out
how ports are controlled.
Hiding sub-ports controlled by failsafe or netvsc look to be enough
justification to promote this API as stable.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
There is a defect in the 'rte_eth_dev_owner_delete()', which cause a crash,
it is fixed in my ethdev unit test patch:
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20210716142800.3853651-8-ferruh.yi...@intel.com/
I think we should get the fix first.
And the crash not detected/reported until now makes me think API is still
not used much, I wonder if we should wait a little more to mature them.
Also only internal user of the API is 'drivers/net/netvsc', I wonder if
PMD detect the crash?
