There may be no way to gracefully recover, but the application
should be notified that a failure happened, rather than completely
aborting. This allows the user to proceed with a "slow-path" type
solution.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com>
---
lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 13 +++++++++++--
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index bf6b818..5023d0d 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -740,6 +740,12 @@ static int rte_eal_vfio_setup(void)
}
#endif
+static void rte_eal_init_alert(const char *msg)
+{
+ fprintf(stderr, "EAL: FATAL: %s\n", msg);
+ RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "%s\n", msg);
+}
+
/* Launch threads, called at application init(). */
int
rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
@@ -767,8 +773,11 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
/* set log level as early as possible */
rte_set_log_level(internal_config.log_level);
- if (rte_eal_cpu_init() < 0)
- rte_panic("Cannot detect lcores\n");
+ if (rte_eal_cpu_init() < 0) {
+ rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot detect lcores.");
+ rte_errno = ENOTSUP;
+ return -1;
+ }
fctret = eal_parse_args(argc, argv);
if (fctret < 0)
--
2.9.3
