On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 22:00:48 +0100 Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote:
> 13/12/2017 18:09, Stephen Hemminger: > > Many DPDK drivers require that setup and initialization be done by > > the primary process. This is mostly to avoid dealing with concurrency since > > there can be multiple secondary processes. > > I think we should consider this limitation as a bug. > We must allow a secondary process to initialize a device. > The race in device creation must be fixed. > Secondary processes should be able to do setup. But it is up to the application not to do it concurrently from multiple processes.
