28/09/2020 20:51, Stephen Hemminger: > On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 01:42:43 +0200 > Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote: > > > The secondary processes are not allowed to release shared resources. > > Only process-private ressources should be freed in a secondary process. > > Most of the time, there is no process-private ressource, > > so the close operation is just forbidden in a secondary process. > > > > After adding proper check in the port close functions, > > some redundant checks in the device remove functions are dropped. > > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > > Since this is a common issue across many drivers, my preference would be that > the > check should be in common code of eth_dev_close. It looks like only a few > drivers > would allow close from secondary, and that would not be that helpful to a > user.
It needs to be managed in the PMD to free secondary process resources.
