https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84
Bug ID: 84
Summary: Primary process broadcasts vdevs during each
secondary's vdev scan
Product: DPDK
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: CONFIRMED
Severity: minor
Priority: Normal
Component: core
Assignee: dev@dpdk.org
Reporter: gage.e...@intel.com
Target Milestone: ---
A secondary process running vdev_scan() (drivers/bus/vdev/vdev.c) requests the
primary to send the vdevs that the primary was given in its EAL args*. The
primary process then receives this request and calls rte_mp_sendmsg() (once per
vdev) to send the vdev information back to the secondary process.
The problem is that rte_mp_sendmsg() broadcasts this information to all
secondaries, so any existing secondary processes will attempt to re-insert the
vdev with insert_vdev(), fail, then report the error message "failed to add
vdev, <vdev name>". This is harmless, as far as I can tell, but the message
makes its seem as though a serious error has occurred.
Ideally the primary would send a unicast message to the requesting secondary.
*Introduced in commit cdb068f031c6 ("bus/vdev: scan by multi-process channel").
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