The AVX512 packed ring datapath selection was only done at build time, but it should also be checked at runtime that the CPU supports it.
This patch add a CPU flags check so that non-vectorized path is selected at runtime if AVX512 is not supported. Fixes: ccb10995c2ad ("net/virtio: add election for vectorized path") Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coque...@redhat.com> --- drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c index 312871cb48..49ccef12c7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c @@ -1965,8 +1965,10 @@ eth_virtio_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev) PMD_DRV_LOG(INFO, "building environment do not support packed ring vectorized"); #else - hw->use_vec_rx = 1; - hw->use_vec_tx = 1; + if (rte_cpu_get_flag_enabled(RTE_CPUFLAG_AVX512F)) { + hw->use_vec_rx = 1; + hw->use_vec_tx = 1; + } #endif } } -- 2.25.4