It's now possible to gracefully exit the application, or for applications which support non-dpdk datapaths working in concert with DPDK datapaths, there no longer is the possibility of exiting for unsupported CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com> --- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c index f7511ab..a671ed4 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c @@ -759,7 +759,11 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv) char thread_name[RTE_MAX_THREAD_NAME_LEN]; /* checks if the machine is adequate */ - rte_cpu_check_supported(); + if (!rte_cpu_is_supported()) { + rte_eal_init_alert("unsupported cpu type."); + rte_errno = ENOTSUP; + return -1; + } if (!rte_atomic32_test_and_set(&run_once)) return -1; -- 2.9.3