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From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] rte_memcpy.h: additional cflags required with OVS
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 09:52:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54FEA2A7.90403@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <533710CFB86FA344BFBF2D6802E60286CFDC65@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On 03/10/2015 05:04 AM, Qiu, Michael wrote:
> On 3/10/2015 12:44 AM, Kavanagh, Mark B wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Compilation of Open vSwitch fails when linked against current HEAD of DPDK (f2552cd5).
>>
>> The source of this issue appears to be commit ID 9144d6b: "eal/x86: optimize memcpy for SSE and AVX", and can be resolved by passing an additional argument to OVS when building same (CFLAGS="-march=native").
>> It seems that without this flag, OVS doesn't pick up one or more SSE #defines in DPDK, and doesn't include a relevant intrinsic header (emmintrin.h), leading to an 'implicit declaration' error for instrinsic '_mm_storeu_si128'.
>
> What's your gcc version? this should be an issue with old version gcc,
> and I'm working on this to solve this issue now. If you want to solve
> this you should upgrade gcc or include them manually, and remove  header
> x86intrin.h .

At least gcc 4.8.2 (which is what RHEL-7 has) exhibits this, however gcc 
4.9 and 5 "just work". The workaround I used was adding -msse4.1 to the 
OVS CFLAGS manually.

	- Panu -

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-10  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-09 16:44 Kavanagh, Mark B
2015-03-09 17:51 ` Mcnamara, John
2015-03-10  0:57   ` Mcnamara, John
2015-03-10  3:00     ` Qiu, Michael
2015-03-10  9:16     ` Kavanagh, Mark B
2015-03-10  3:04 ` Qiu, Michael
2015-03-10  7:52   ` Panu Matilainen [this message]
2015-03-10  8:27   ` Mcnamara, John
2015-03-10 10:03     ` Kavanagh, Mark B
2015-03-11  4:37       ` Wang, Zhihong
2015-03-11  8:06         ` Mcnamara, John

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