Hello,
We have run into a timing issue between threads when using the memif interface
type and need some guidance.
Our application has a DPDK based process operating (among other things) a memif
server interface. The problem is exposed when this memif interface receives a
memif.disconnect message from the remote client, while in the middle of an
rte_eth_rx_burst() on this same memif interface. As the IRQ message handling is
on its own thread as compared to the DPDK worker thread doing the rx_burst,
this resulted in a crash. The backtraces for which have been shared below. How
does one ensure there are guard rails in place to gracefully exit the rx-burst
when a disconnect occurs? Or, how do we properly modify the code such that we
defer responding to the disconnect CB after the rx-burst operation has
completed?
We are utilizing DPDK 21.11.2. I have diff'd dpdks-stable:22.11.3 in
./drivers/net/memif, but I do not see anything obvious that would address this.
I did a similar diff for dpdk:23.07, but do not see anything obvious there
either.
-Mike
(gdb) thread 1
[Switching to thread 1 (Thread 0x7f17e2813600 (LWP 470))]
#0 0x00007f17e374d225 in eth_memif_rx (queue=0x1189023b00,
bufs=0x7f17e28100e8, nb_pkts=32) at ../git/drivers/net/memif/rte_eth_memif.c:338
338 last_slot = __atomic_load_n(&ring->head,
__ATOMIC_ACQUIRE);
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007f17e374d225 in eth_memif_rx (queue=0x1189023b00,
bufs=0x7f17e28100e8, nb_pkts=32) at ../git/drivers/net/memif/rte_eth_memif.c:338
#1 0x000000000047e6fb in rte_eth_rx_burst (nb_pkts=32, rx_pkts=0x7f17e28100e8,
queue_id=0, port_id=<optimized out>) at /usr/include/rte_ethdev.h:5368
#2 pmd_main_loop () at ../git/swfw/api/src/swfwPmd.c:1086
#3 0x000000000047f309 in pmd_launch_one_lcore (dummy=<optimized out>) at
../git/my_process.c:1157
#4 0x00007f17f7070e7c in eal_thread_loop (arg=<optimized out>) at
../git/lib/eal/linux/eal_thread.c:146
#5 0x00007f17f4c3da72 in start_thread (arg=<optimized out>) at
pthread_create.c:442
#6 0x00007f17f4cbf930 in clone3 () at
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone3.S:81
(gdb) l
333 ring_size = 1 << mq->log2_ring_size;
334 mask = ring_size - 1;
335
336 if (type == MEMIF_RING_C2S) {
337 cur_slot = mq->last_head;
338 last_slot = __atomic_load_n(&ring->head,
__ATOMIC_ACQUIRE);
339 } else {
340 cur_slot = mq->last_tail;
341 last_slot = __atomic_load_n(&ring->tail,
__ATOMIC_ACQUIRE);
342 }
(gdb) p ring->head
Cannot access memory at address 0x7f17d8e58006
(gdb) thread 19
[Switching to thread 19 (Thread 0x7f17f0804600 (LWP 468))]
#0 0x00007f17f4caf97b in __GI___close (fd=494) at
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/close.c:27
27 return SYSCALL_CANCEL (close, fd);
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007f17f4caf97b in __GI___close (fd=494) at
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/close.c:27
#1 0x00007f17e374f01f in memif_free_regions (dev=dev@entry=0x7f17f727f000
<rte_eth_devices+99072>) at ../git/drivers/net/memif/rte_eth_memif.c:882
#2 0x00007f17e37475d0 in memif_disconnect (dev=0x7f17f727f000
<rte_eth_devices+99072>) at ../git/drivers/net/memif/memif_socket.c:623
#3 0x00007f17f7091bd2 in eal_intr_process_interrupts (nfds=<optimized out>,
events=<optimized out>) at ../git/lib/eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c:1026
#4 eal_intr_handle_interrupts (totalfds=<optimized out>, pfd=20) at
../git/lib/eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c:1100
#5 eal_intr_thread_main (arg=<optimized out>) at
../git/lib/eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c:1172
#6 0x00007f17f4c3da72 in start_thread (arg=<optimized out>) at
pthread_create.c:442
#7 0x00007f17f4cbf930 in clone3 () at
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone3.S:81
