Sort of. Helped with the creation of the patch a bit so I figured I should add a sign off. Someone other than me should review it for this reason.
Ethan On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > 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
