Thursday, June 6, 2019 3:23 PM, Viacheslav Ovsiienko: > Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix master device Netlink socket sharing > > There is the patch [1] that uses master device Netlink socket to retrieve > master device link settings. This is not thread safe because this resource may > be in use by other call to the master device itself. Using the same Netlink > socket concurrently from the multiple threads causes Netlink requests > malfunction and must be eliminated. The patch replaces master Netlink > socket with the socket from representor device. > > [1] http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/53120/ > > Fixes: 0333b2f584d9 ("net/mlx5: inherit master link settings for > representors") > Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viachesl...@mellanox.com>
Applied to next-net-mlx, thanks.
