On Sun, 17 Sep 2023 21:37:30 +0200
Gabor LENCSE <len...@hit.bme.hu> wrote:
> However, l2fwd also uses the "rte_exit()" function to terminate the
> program. The only difference is that it calls the "rte_exit()" function
> from the main program, and I do so in a thread started by the
> "rte_eal_remote_launch()" function.
Calling rte_exit in a thread other than main thread won't work because
the cleanup code is calling rte_eal_cleanup, and inside that it ends
up waiting for all workers. Since the thread you are calling from
is a worker, it ends up waiting for itself.
rte_exit()
rte_eal_cleanup()
rte_service_finalize()
rte_eal_mp_wait_lcore()
void
rte_eal_mp_wait_lcore(void)
{
unsigned lcore_id;
RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_WORKER(lcore_id) {
rte_eal_wait_lcore(lcore_id);
}
}
Either service handling needs to be smarter, the rte_exit() function
check if it is called from main lcore, and/or documentation needs update.
Not a simple fix because in order to safely do the cleanup logic
all threads have to gone to a quiescent state.
