Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] support reinit flow

On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:58:03 -0400 Sinan Kaya wrote: > > > > As a compromise, can this restart be officially tagged as > > unsupported. > > any pointers how to do this? > > I have no idea how to mark something unsupported in code. > If this is acceptable in cover letter, I'm happy to do that

Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] support reinit flow

On Tue, 2023-08-15 at 10:45 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Why? > > It is not always ideal to reinitialize a DPDK process. Memory needs > > to be reinitialized, hugetables need to warm up etc. > > > > > I am familiar with the backstory of why this is desirable in your > case. > > But othe

Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] support reinit flow

On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:50:15 -0400 ok...@kernel.org wrote: > From: Sinan Kaya > > We want to be able to call rte_eal_init() and rte_eal_cleanup() > APIs back to back for maintanance reasons. > > Here is a summary of the code we have seen so far: > > 1. some code support getting called multiple

[PATCH v4 0/8] support reinit flow

From: Sinan Kaya We want to be able to call rte_eal_init() and rte_eal_cleanup() APIs back to back for maintanance reasons. Here is a summary of the code we have seen so far: 1. some code support getting called multiple times by keeping a static variable. 2. some code initializes once but never