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From: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
To: dpdk-dev <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: Dmitry Kozliuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] RTE_REGISTER_BUS does not work on Windows
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 06:45:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALDO+SZ-FLPYNQbUJ-Ctwtph+M4_X_=zYAOKgkp5_un4QFq_eg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALDO+SaJG-tLD=R1Y8VCN29qJCWdR96d-t6zp4=cABYuXbyn_g@mail.gmail.com>

I've resolved the issue by adding -Wl,/WHOLEARCHIVE at libdpdk.pc
Thanks
William

On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 7:41 AM William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I continued my experiment and observed below
> 1. for dpdk-testpmd.exe which works fine, the functions in driver/bus/pci/*
> are there in the binary, ex:
> PS C:\dpdk\build\app> dumpbin.exe /ALL .\dpdk-testpmd.exe | grep rte_pci_set_b
>   0001D1F0 0068DB40 0068DC32 0073BDEC  rte_pci_set_bus_master
> So I think that's why
> RTE_REGISTER_BUS(pci, rte_pci_bus.bus) works in dpdk-testpmd.exe
>
> 2. for my own application binary which static links DPDK library using
> pkgconfig,
> PS C:\example\build> dumpbin.exe /ALL .\demo.exe | grep rte_pci_set
> <empty>
> and it only has symbols from lib/eal/*, ex:
> PS C:\example\build> dumpbin.exe /ALL .\demo.exe | grep rte_bus_re
>   00000D14 000152D0 0001559E 00095CC8  rte_bus_register
>
> Apparently the pci bus constructor function doesn't exist in my binary.
> I'm going to try using meson subproject
> https://mesonbuild.com/Subprojects.html
>
> Thanks,
> William
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 10:47 AM William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to run OVS-DPDK on Windows (building OVS binaries and
> > statically link DPDK windows library), and it doesn't work due to
> > rte_bus_scan() find no available devices. (However, when using
> > dpdk-testpmd.exe, it finds the device successfully)
> >
> > I realized that the PCI bus driver calls RTE_REGISTER_BUS to
> > register itself, and it's a macro creating the businitfn_pci, and calls
> > rte_bus_register. But somehow on my system, it does not invoke
> > so actually the 'rte_bus_list' is empty. And I guess this is due to
> > "constructor" function not working correctly when I static link DPDK.
> >
> > When linking DPDK using gcc, OVS passes the linker option '--whole-archive'.
> > https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/master/acinclude.m4#L509
> >
> > I tried adding -Wl,-force_load, or -Wl,/WHOLEARCHIVE at libdpdk.pc.
> > So far I still couldn't get it to work. Any suggestions or comments are welcome!
> >
> > Thank you
> > William

      reply	other threads:[~2021-09-25 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-23 17:47 William Tu
2021-09-24 14:41 ` William Tu
2021-09-25 13:45   ` William Tu [this message]

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