[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/vmxnet3: add spinlocks to register command access

2021-11-08 Thread sahithi . singam
From: Sahithi Singam At present, there are no spinlocks around register command access. This resulted in a race condition when two threads running on two different cores invoked link_update function at the same time to get link status. Due to this race condition, one of the threads reported

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kni: fix kernel deadlock due to async changes

2021-10-10 Thread Sahithi Singam
From: Sahithi Singam mailto:sahithi.sin...@oracle.com>> Async user request changes resulted in a kernel deadlock when used with linux kernel version>= 5.12. Starting from linux kernel version 5.12, a new global semaphore dev_addr_sem was introduced in dev_set_mac_address_user()