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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Dirk-Holger Lenz <dirk.lenz@ng4t.com>, gaetan.rivet@6wind.com
Cc: users@dpdk.org, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] If shared libraries are used vdev doesn't work anymore
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 22:23:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2197043.BsW04uu1lT@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9fb283ed-223d-713e-4722-21278f4cfd6e@ng4t.com>

31/07/2017 16:58, Dirk-Holger Lenz:
> If dpdk is built with 'CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB=y' then
> using the vdev feature (args: e.g. -c 3 -n 4 --vdev="crypto_openssl")
> the rte_eal_init() returns 'ERROR: failed to parse device "crypto_openssl"'.
> It looks to me that rte_eal_devargs_add() calling rte_eal_devargs_parse()
> is trying to check the device name before the shared libraries are read
> and the internal data arrays are setup.

Yes, you're right: eal_parse_args() is called before eal_plugins_init().
The fix is not small: we should split the args parsing to parse the
device arguments after loading shared libraries.

It is a release blocker.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-31 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-31 14:58 Dirk-Holger Lenz
2017-07-31 15:57 ` Dirk-Holger Lenz
2017-07-31 20:23 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2017-08-01  8:17   ` Gaëtan Rivet
2017-08-01  9:32     ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-08-02 14:11       ` Dirk-Holger Lenz

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