Previous mail was destined to me which I believe is not correct. Updating "To recipient".
Regards Sunil Kumar Kori > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 10:27 PM > To: Sunil Kumar Kori <sk...@marvell.com> > Cc: Muhammad Bilal <m.bi...@emumba.com>; declan.dohe...@intel.com; > tomasz.kante...@intel.com; Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula > <pbhagavat...@marvell.com>; dev@dpdk.org; jgraj...@cisco.com; > vipin.vargh...@intel.com > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [EXT] [PATCH 1/5] examples/l2fwd-event: free > resources in case of error > > On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 10:38:01 +0000 > Sunil Kumar Kori <sk...@marvell.com> wrote: > > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> Also I think, it is better to release the relevant resources on > > >> >> >> error. > > >> >> >Here I'm solving the problem reported in bugzilla id 437. The > > >> >> >bug was that if we use --vdev=net_memif with l2fwd application > > >> >> >(and with its other variants) then a socket is created by memif > > >> >> >PMD, after rte_eal_init function has run successfully. And if > > >> >> >an error occurs then the application exits without freeing the > > >> >> >resources (socket). On running the application 2nd time we get > > >> >> >an error of "socket > > >already exists". > > Bottom line: Fix memif, don't wallpaper over the bug by fixing the examples. > > Other user applications, can and do crash. The driver needs to be robust and > handle that.
