Hi Stephen, Thursday, July 12, 2018 12:08 AM, Stephen Hemminger: > Subject: [BUG] mlx5 build failure on Debian testing > > I am seeing a build failure of MLX5 driver on Debian testing (buster) with > dpdk.org master branch. > > This is using libibverbs-dev version 19.0-1 > > The failure is: > mlx5_glue.h:94:11: error: ‘struct ibv_counter_set_init_attr’ declared inside > parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration > [- > Werror] > struct ibv_counter_set_init_attr *init_attr); > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > It looks like this is being caused because > HAVE_IBV_DEVICE_COUNTERS_SET_SUPPORT is not set, but the header file > does not have the counter stuff. > > The Makefile is generating this mlx5 autoconf file by looking for "enum > IBV_FLOW_SPEC_ACTION_COUNT" > in /usr/include/infiniband/verbs.h. This enum is present, but counters are > not. > > $ grep IBV_FLOW_SPEC_ACTION /usr/include/infiniband/verbs.h > IBV_FLOW_SPEC_ACTION_TAG = 0x1000, > IBV_FLOW_SPEC_ACTION_DROP = 0x1001, > IBV_FLOW_SPEC_ACTION_HANDLE = 0x1002, > IBV_FLOW_SPEC_ACTION_COUNT = 0x1003,
Thanks for reporting, this was also raised by Ferruh. We will fix this issue. The fix is pending series [1] as it changes the entire flow engine. [1] https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=512
