Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix circular dependency in EAL proc type detection

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

18/07/2018 17:58, Yao, Lei A:
> From: Burakov, Anatoly
> > 
> > Currently, we need runtime dir to put all of our runtime info in,
> > including the DPDK shared config. However, we use the shared
> > config to determine our proc type, and this happens earlier than
> > we actually create the config dir and thus can know where to
> > place the config file.
> > 
> > Fix this by moving runtime dir creation right after the EAL
> > arguments parsing, but before proc type autodetection. Also,
> > previously we were creating the config file unconditionally,
> > even if we specified no_shconf - fix it by only creating
> > the config file if no_shconf is not set.
> > 
> > Fixes: adf1d867361c ("eal: move runtime config file to new location")
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
> Tested-by: Yao Lei<lei.a.yao@intel.com>
> This patch pass the test with simple_mp sample. The secondary process
> can recognize itself as "secondary process" even use  "--proc-type=auto"
> parameter. 

Applied, thanks