The first patch of this patchset contains a fix for EAL PCI probing, to avoid a race-condition where a primary and secondary probe PCI devices at the same time.
The second patch adds a function that can be polled by a process to detect if a DPDK primary process is alive. This function does not rely on rte_eal_init(), as this uses the EAL and thus stops a primary from starting. The functionality provided by this patch is very useful for providing additional services to DPDK primary applications such as monitoring statistics and performing fault detection. Harry van Haaren (2): eal: fix race-condition in pri/sec proc startup eal: add function to check if primary proc alive doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst | 8 ++++++++ lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/Makefile | 1 + lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c | 6 +++--- lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/rte_eal_version.map | 1 + lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/Makefile | 3 ++- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 6 +++--- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/rte_eal_version.map | 1 + 8 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 2.5.0
