On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 01:51:46PM -0700, Melvin Walls wrote: > In order for OVS running inside a VM using IVSHMEM to recognize ports created > on the host, you have to start vswitchd with the --proc-type=secondary EAL > option. > > When creating rings in secondary processes functions like > rte_eth_dev_configure() fail with the error code E_RTE_SECONDARY, i.e., the > operations are not allowed in secondary processes. Avoiding this requires some > changes to the way secondary processes handle dpdk rings. > > This patch changes dpdk_ring_create() to use rte_ring_lookup() instead of > rte_ring_create() when called from a secondary process. It also introduces two > functions: netdev_dpdk_ring_rxq_recv() and netdev_dpdk_ring_send__() to handle > tx/rx on dpdk rings in secondary processes. > > Signed-off-by: Melvin Walls <mwall...@gmail.com> > Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <et...@nicira.com>
These sign-offs are weird. Ethan, is this Signed-off-by meant to be an Acked-by from you? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
