Tuesday, January 30, 2018 5:35 PM, Adrien Mazarguil: > Subject: [PATCH v4 0/4] net/mlx: make rdma-core optional at run-time > > A problem encountered with Mellanox PMDs and frequently reported by > DPDK application developers and Linux distribution package maintainers is > their dependency on rdma-core components, namely libibverbs, libmlx4, and > libmlx5. > > For best performance in applications, DPDK is normally built as a collection > of > library archives (.a files), whose external dependencies are inherited through > rte.app.mk during link. > > When these PMDs are built-in, any binary DPDK package, whether DPDK > itself or derived applications, always have to pull rdma-core. This > dependency is not obvious and may be missed during the packaging of any > intermediate layer between DPDK itself and the end application. > > While still required during compilation, this series trades this hard > dependency for an optional one, dynamically loaded at run-time through > dlopen(). > > It supersedes Shachar's previous work on the same topic [1] using a different > approach in order to preserve symbol versioning and address the remaining > issues. >
Series applied to next-net-mlx with the requested conversion from ERROR to WARN upon dlopen failure. Please check fix is OK. Thanks.
