When blacklisting network adapters that share a PCI bus address with multiple ports such as Mellanox ConnectX-3 (librte_pmd_mlx4), RTE applications enter infinite loops while probing PCI devices.
This commit removes this probe on subsequent instances for blacklisted devices that have RTE_PCI_DRV_MULTIPLE set. Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com> Signed-off-by: Julien Courtat <julien.courtat at 6wind.com> --- lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_pci.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_pci.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_pci.c index 3a6ab70..4e1a944 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_pci.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_pci.c @@ -91,9 +91,11 @@ pci_probe_all_drivers(struct rte_pci_device *dev) if (rte_eal_pci_probe_one_driver(dr, dev)) continue; /* initialize subsequent driver instances for this device */ - if (dr->drv_flags & RTE_PCI_DRV_MULTIPLE) + if ((dr->drv_flags & RTE_PCI_DRV_MULTIPLE) && + (!dev->blacklisted)) { while (rte_eal_pci_probe_one_driver(dr, dev) == 0) ; + } return 0; } return -1; -- 1.7.2.5