Hi Jon, > We are seeing a really strange VPP API message processing problem. > The scenario goes like this... > > Our CLI issues C API calls through the vlib API. The messages hit > the shared memory queue, but are not processed. They sit there.
Is it VPP that does not process the messages or is it the client (your CLI) that does not process the replies? > Later, we fire up, say, vppctl and do a "show api" command. That > causes the queue to be flushed and the first thing it does is process > the outstanding API messages from our CLI. >From a different process? Hmm, not sure I quite understand the scenario, but >this doesn't sound quite like how the API can be used. Pointer to code? Best regards, Ole > This used to work. About two weeks ago I started pulling in the > top-of-tree stuff to get us closer to development head and get > some of the needed bug fixes. > > I'm wondering if this sounds familiar to you at all? > > I've started to isolate it with git bisect, and so far I believe the > behavior changed between these commits: > > $ git log --oneline > ... > 553a411 VPP-585: vhost-user interface deletion leaks memory. > ffc18f5 japi: include tests in jar files > 738f3f2 API refactoring : dpdk > 6bbf83a Revert "vppctl: bash completion for vppctl commands" > 842b9c5 Self-service garbage collection for the API message allocator > d995c75 vppctl: bash completion for vppctl commands > 0d3c1cc VPP-279: af_packet via Command-line Arg should no longer be supported > 48c1824 Update CSIT tests 170101 -> 170108 > ... > > I've not had a chance to look at them yet, but of those, the most > suspicious looking one to me is: > 842b9c5 Self-service garbage collection for the API message allocator > > If no one beats me to it, I'll continue bisecting it tomorrow... > > Thanks, > jdl > > _______________________________________________ > vpp-dev mailing list > vpp-dev@lists.fd.io > https://lists.fd.io/mailman/listinfo/vpp-dev _______________________________________________ vpp-dev mailing list vpp-dev@lists.fd.io https://lists.fd.io/mailman/listinfo/vpp-dev
