DPDK worker threads are the Linux threads. Thread level MMU protection does NOT exist. All the worker-threads of the primary-process has access to stack and heap memory of all the other worker-threads, one thread can corrupt the other thread’s stack and heap-allocated memory. Worker-thread’s stack corruption prevention and detection can be achieved by provisioning the stack-memory from the mem-zone, the dynamically allocated objects can be allocated from the mem-zone instead of the heap. This allows protecting the thread’s stack and allows checking the corruption by dumping the mem-zones at the runtime.Any accidental Data-plane tables corruption can be prevented by using some of the general 'C' programming features and centralizing the data-plane object updates. Data-plane tables can be safe-guarded by placing each of them in individual mem-zones and surrounding it by the memory-guard-bands. This allows user to dump the complete table in one go and easily identify the table corruption. Memory guard-band allows user to identify any out-of-bound access for the tables.
