From: "Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles@intel.com>
To: Charles Ju <charlesyju@gmail.com>
Cc: "users@dpdk.org" <users@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Using dpdk libraries without EAL
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:38:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199252A3-8503-40CE-ADB9-3ACF0A9146EE@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAODH1pfDpdKDnbJRWJTWoSTt9Q56MmvJ2rWdDbj2Qv-QkL7GZQ@mail.gmail.com>
> On Sep 10, 2018, at 3:20 AM, Charles Ju <charlesyju@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have developed my own packet capture code and would like to just use the
> dpdk libraries such as the ACL Library and mempool libraries. In this case,
> does these libraries require the EAL?
There is a number of dependences with mempool, but if you can write your own eal that calls the memory setup then yes you can. The problem is EAL does a lot of initializations for memory, pci and threads and not calling rte_eal_init() means you need to write some code to make sure everything is setup for mempool to work.
If you are going to use the PMDs then you have a bit more work to get them to work as mbufs, rings, buses and a number of other libs all need to be inited. EAL does that work today and breaking those dependences is not easy.
Regards,
Keith
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2018-09-10 8:20 Charles Ju
2018-09-10 12:38 ` Wiles, Keith [this message]
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2018-09-10 8:05 Charles Ju
2018-09-13 14:45 ` Wiles, Keith
2018-09-13 14:47 ` Stephen Hemminger
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