After closing a port, it cannot be restarted.
So there is no reason to not free all associated resources.
The last step was done with rte_eth_dev_detach() which is deprecated.
Instead of removing the associated rte_device, the driver should check
if no more port (ethdev, cryptodev, etc) is still open for the device.
Then the device resources can be freed by the driver inside the
dev_close() driver callback operation.
The last ethdev freeing (dev_private and final release), which were done
by rte_eth_dev_detach(), are now done at the end of rte_eth_dev_close().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
---
This patch contains only the change in the close function as RFC.
This idea was presented at Dublin during the "hotplug talk".
---
lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c | 5 +++++
lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h | 5 +++--
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
index 4c3202505..071fcbd23 100644
--- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
+++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
@@ -1358,6 +1358,7 @@ void
rte_eth_dev_close(uint16_t port_id)
{
struct rte_eth_dev *dev;
+ struct rte_bus *bus;
RTE_ETH_VALID_PORTID_OR_RET(port_id);
dev = &rte_eth_devices[port_id];
@@ -1372,6 +1373,10 @@ rte_eth_dev_close(uint16_t port_id)
dev->data->nb_tx_queues = 0;
rte_free(dev->data->tx_queues);
dev->data->tx_queues = NULL;
+
+ rte_free(dev->data->dev_private);
+
+ rte_eth_dev_release_port(dev);
}
int
diff --git a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
index 7070e9ab4..37a757a7a 100644
--- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
+++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
@@ -1797,8 +1797,9 @@ int rte_eth_dev_set_link_down(uint16_t port_id);
/**
* Close a stopped Ethernet device. The device cannot be restarted!
- * The function frees all resources except for needed by the
- * closed state. To free these resources, call rte_eth_dev_detach().
+ * The function frees all port resources.
+ * If there is no more port associated with the underlying device,
+ * the driver should free the device resources.
*
* @param port_id
* The port identifier of the Ethernet device.
--
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