From: Justin Tallon <justin.tallon@softwareradiosystems.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: users@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] using dpdk as a shared library
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:20:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+uMv7coF73PMu8Gy+9yrAfdsm82k6fcr6aDFCaPaTKhCGw4Pg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201219112715.75924abe@hermes.local>
Hey Stephen,
Thanks for the response, I have passed the directory of the dpdk library as
you said with the -d flag.
However, when I did this, I get the following error.
libdpdk.so: invalid ELF header
any help with this would be appreciated.
Regards,
Justin
____
Justin Tallon Ph.D.
Software Radio Systems (SRS)
http://www.softwareradiosystems.com
+353-86-067-0753 | justin.tallon@softwareradiosystems.com
On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 8:27 PM Stephen Hemminger <
stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 23:38:28 +0100
> Justin Tallon <justin.tallon@softwareradiosystems.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > We are trying to use dpdk (dpdk-stable-18.08.1) as a shared library.
> >
> > We have recompiled as a shared library by setting
> > *CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB=y*
> >
> > My program compiles file and I can see the relevant libraries when I use
> > ldd on the binary.
> >
> > I direct my binary look in the correct place by using export
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH and the binary appears to find the libraries.
> > However, when the function rte_eth_dev_count_avail returns it returns a 0
> > and exits, when I run the same program with static libraries, it works
> > correctly.
> >
> > Any help on this would be great!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Justin
> >
> >
> > ____
> > Justin Tallon Ph.D.
> >
> > Software Radio Systems (SRS)
> > http://www.softwareradiosystems.com
> >
> > +353-86-067-0753 | justin.tallon@softwareradiosystems.com
>
> When used as a shared library DPDK does not automatically load any
> required poll
> mode driver libraries. You have to pass -d flag to make it load what you
> want.
>
> I consider this a bug (others do not), and think the DPDK should have a
> table
> mapping PCI device id to the PMD shared library and automatically load the
> PMD
> shared library (like the Linux kernel module autoloading works).
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-21 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-18 22:38 Justin Tallon
2020-12-19 19:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-12-21 23:20 ` Justin Tallon [this message]
2020-12-21 23:32 ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-03-22 21:18 ` Justin Tallon
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