Hi Bruce, Thanks for the fix. I do see the issue mentioned when using DPDK shared libs with OVS and this patch fixes it.
However, I saw the issue only for system installed DPDK but not for directory installed DPDK. > I saw this issue with OVS, where I was getting weird failures about ports not > being bound (in case of physical ports) or not being created (in case of > virtio > ports), when using a shared build. Since it's potentially serious, I'd > appreciate > if someone can reproduce the issue and verify the fix so we can consider it > for 21.02 inclusion. > > To demonstrate this with regular DPDK, do a usual build of DPDK and then do > "ninja install" to install system-wide. Then build an example app, e.g. > l2fwd, using "make" from the examples/l2fwd directory. Running the > example normally, e.g. ./build/l2fwd -c F00, leads to no drivers being loaded > or ports being found. Adding "-d /path/to/drivers" e.g. > "/usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dpdk/pmds-21.1" on my system works as > expected. This shows the driver loading is not correct. > > After applying this patch and re-running "ninja install", l2fwd should run the > same with and without the "-d" flag. > > /Bruce Tested-by: Sunil Pai G <sunil.pa...@intel.com>
