On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 05:11:21PM +0000, Shubhachint, Chaitanya wrote: > Thank you for your reply Bruce. > Still having issues with shared-lib DPDK. I tried both options and get two > distinct issues. > I tried running the l2fwd example with e1000 driver and get little farther. > This time it does find the devices but there is an error with MBUF > > root:build$./l2fwd -d > /home/sp2/dpdk-18.08/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/lib/librte_pmd_e1000.so > EAL: Detected 6 lcore(s) > EAL: Detected 1 NUMA nodes > EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket > EAL: No free hugepages reported in hugepages-1048576kB > EAL: Probing VFIO support... > EAL: PCI device 0000:00:19.0 on NUMA socket -1 > EAL: Invalid NUMA socket, default to 0 > EAL: probe driver: 8086:1502 net_e1000_em > EAL: PCI device 0000:06:00.0 on NUMA socket -1 > EAL: Invalid NUMA socket, default to 0 > EAL: probe driver: 8086:1521 net_e1000_igb > EAL: PCI device 0000:06:00.1 on NUMA socket -1 > EAL: Invalid NUMA socket, default to 0 > EAL: probe driver: 8086:1521 net_e1000_igb > EAL: PCI device 0000:06:00.2 on NUMA socket -1 > EAL: Invalid NUMA socket, default to 0 > EAL: probe driver: 8086:1521 net_e1000_igb > EAL: PCI device 0000:06:00.3 on NUMA socket -1 > EAL: Invalid NUMA socket, default to 0 > EAL: probe driver: 8086:1521 net_e1000_igb > EAL: PCI device 0000:08:00.0 on NUMA socket -1 > EAL: Invalid NUMA socket, default to 0 > EAL: probe driver: 8086:10d3 net_e1000_em > MAC updating enabled > MBUF: error setting mempool handler > EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1 > Cause: Cannot init mbuf pool > > 2nd Option of setting CONFIG_RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH option is ideal, but I run into > issue with as well. I am configuring and installing the DPDK with > CONFIG_RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH set as > CONFIG_RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH=$(HOME)/dpdk-18.08/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/lib > > I this case I get following error when I run l2fwd > > root:build$./l2fwd > EAL: Detected 6 lcore(s) > EAL: Detected 1 NUMA nodes > EAL: /home/sp2/dpdk-18.08/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/lib/libdpdk.so: invalid > ELF header > EAL: FATAL: Cannot init plugins > > EAL: Cannot init plugins > > EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1 > Cause: Invalid EAL arguments >
To use CONFIG_RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH, you really need to have the drivers all in a separate directory, without any additional libs present. Other non-PMD libraries will cause the error above when they are loaded. /Bruce
