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The driver provides a DMA buffer to the firmware when it requests port
stats. The NIC then fills that buffer with latest stats. Currently,
the driver allocates the DMA buffer the first time it requests stats
and saves it for later use. This can lead to crashes when
primary/secondary processes are involved. For example, the following
sequence crashes the secondary process.
1. Start a primary app that does not call rte_eth_stats_get()
2. dpdk-procinfo -- --stats
dpdk-procinfo crashes while trying to allocate the stats DMA buffer
because the alloc function pointer (vdev.alloc_consistent) is valid
only in the primary process, not in the secondary process.
Overwriting the alloc function pointer in the secondary process is not
an option, as it will simply make the pointer invalid in the primary
process. Instead, allocate the DMA buffer during probe so that only
the primary process does both allocate and free. This allows the
secondary process to dump stats as well.
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| meson_options.txt | ||
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| README | ||
DPDK is a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing. It supports many processor architectures and both FreeBSD and Linux. The DPDK uses the Open Source BSD-3-Clause license for the core libraries and drivers. The kernel components are GPL-2.0 licensed. Please check the doc directory for release notes, API documentation, and sample application information. For questions and usage discussions, subscribe to: users@dpdk.org Report bugs and issues to the development mailing list: dev@dpdk.org