Hi, Thomas

在 2021/9/7 16:53, Thomas Monjalon 写道:

07/09/2021 05:41, Huisong Li:

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Calling rte_eth_dev_close() will release resources of eth device and close
it. But rte_pci_device struct isn't released when app exit, which will lead
to memory leak.

That's a PMD issue.
When the last port of a PCI device is closed, the device should be freed.

Why is this a PMD problem? I don't understand.

As far as I know, most apps or examples in the DPDK project have only 
one port for a pci device.

When the port is closed, the rte_pci_device should be freed. But none of 
the apps seem to do this.

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+		/* Retrieve device address in eth device before closing it. */
+		eth_dev = &rte_eth_devices[portid];

You should not access this array, considered internal.

We have to save the address of rte_device to free rte_pci_device before 
closing eth device.

Because the the device address in rte_eth_dev struct will be set to a 
NULL after closing eth device.

It's also handled in OVS in this way.

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+		rte_dev = eth_dev->device;
  		rte_eth_dev_close(portid);
+		ret = rte_dev_remove(rte_dev);

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