29/04/2021 04:10, Min Hu (Connor):
> Currently, the mp uses gettimeofday() API to get the time, and used as
> timeout parameter.
>
> But the time which gets from gettimeofday() API isn't monotonically
> increasing. The process may fail if the system time is changed.
>
> This fixes it by using clock_gettime() API with monotonic attribution.
>
> Fixes: 783b6e54971d ("eal: add synchronous multi-process communication")
> Fixes: f05e26051c15 ("eal: add IPC asynchronous request")
> Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Chengwen Feng <fengcheng...@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Min Hu (Connor) <humi...@huawei.com>
> ---
[...]
> --- a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_proc.c
> +++ b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_proc.c
> - if (gettimeofday(&now, NULL) < 0) {
> - RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Cannot get current time\n");
> - goto no_trigger;
> - }
> - ts_now.tv_nsec = now.tv_usec * 1000;
> - ts_now.tv_sec = now.tv_sec;
> + clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts_now);
Why not testing the return value?
I think this change would not be appropriate after -rc1.
If you agree, I will postpone to DPDK 21.08.
