X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Fprog_guide%2Fmulti_proc_support.rst;h=815e8bdc43325725357b301c977f9d4626e59056;hb=6cc51b1293ceac4a77d4bf7ac91a8bbd59e1f78c;hp=57fd7425a15d56d098d39161a3828526ce8d0db2;hpb=db27370b57202632ad8830352c1c0ee2dde4542f;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst index 57fd7425a1..815e8bdc43 100644 --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ and point to the same objects, in both processes. The EAL also supports an auto-detection mode (set by EAL ``--proc-type=auto`` flag ), -whereby an DPDK process is started as a secondary instance if a primary instance is already running. +whereby a DPDK process is started as a secondary instance if a primary instance is already running. Deployment Models ----------------- @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ supported. However, since sending messages (not requests) does not involve an IPC thread, sending messages while processing another message or request is supported. -Since the memory sybsystem uses IPC internally, memory allocations and IPC must +Since the memory subsystem uses IPC internally, memory allocations and IPC must not be mixed: it is not safe to use IPC inside a memory-related callback, nor is it safe to allocate/free memory inside IPC callbacks. Attempting to do so may lead to a deadlock.