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From: Vipin Varghese <vipin.varghese@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org, marko.kovacevic@intel.com
Cc: stable@dpdk.org, john.mcnamara@intel.com,
	Vipin Varghese <vipin.varghese@intel.com>
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update procinfo for shared library
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:47:02 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1517314622-19439-1-git-send-email-vipin.varghese@intel.com> (raw)

added note category to procinfo guide, to intimate users in shared
library mode. Procinfo requires same NIC libraries to probe the NIC
devices as Primary Application.

Signed-off-by: Vipin Varghese <vipin.varghese@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst b/doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst
index fd17e27..78c5a9e 100644
--- a/doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst
@@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ statistics, resetting port statistics and printing DPDK memory information.
 This application extends the original functionality that was supported by
 dump_cfg.
 
+.. Note::
+   When running `dpdk-procinfo`` with shared library mode, it is required to
+   pass the same NIC PMD libraries as used for the primary application. Any
+   mismatch in PMD library arguments can lead to undefined behaviour and results
+   affecting primary application too.
+
 Running the Application
 -----------------------
 The application has a number of command line options:
-- 
1.9.1

             reply	other threads:[~2018-01-30 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-30 12:17 Vipin Varghese [this message]
2018-01-30 13:39 ` Kovacevic, Marko
2018-02-01  2:23   ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Thomas Monjalon

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