Dear Michael, interesting work.
Do you plan to upstream your PMD to DPDK mainline? Thanks, -- Damjan > On 25 May 2018, at 10:50, Michael Lilja <m...@napatech.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I had to use another DPDK source base also as shared library, so I went > though a few trails before I got things to work. I have documented my quirks > here: https://www.napatech.com/vpp-200g-nic/ > <https://www.napatech.com/vpp-200g-nic/> > > I hope it is helpful. > > /Michael > > From: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io <mailto:vpp-dev@lists.fd.io> <vpp-dev@lists.fd.io > <mailto:vpp-dev@lists.fd.io>> On Behalf Of Catalin Fierut > Sent: 24. maj 2018 13:55 > To: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io <mailto:vpp-dev@lists.fd.io> > Subject: [vpp-dev] vpp with dpdk shared library > > Hello vpp, > > > I'm trying to run vpp with external dpdk. I compiled dpdk with support of > shared library in order to have support for collectd. I made changes in > vpp.mk <http://vpp.mk/> in order to enable the usage of external dpdk already > installed and support for shared library inside vpp. The build passed > successfully, but when I'm runing the vpp binary it crashes in init.c from > vpp/src/plugins/dpdk/devices in dpdk_config function. The reason why is > crashing is the fact that is not loading the rte_mempool_ring.so file from > dpdk. which by the way exist. This file is responsible with the > initialization of structures ops_sp_sc, ops_mp_sc, ops_sp_mc, ops_mp_mc, > basically ops=NULL. > When I let vpp to use the dpdk deb files all runs ok, and the references to > dpdk structures are present in the dpdk_plugin.so file. In this working way > vpp is using dpdk library statically. > I was expected base on dpdk.am <http://dpdk.am/> that on shared library > branch dpdk_pluging to be build based on dpdk dynamic library info. > Is any way to run vpp with shared library support? Any idea why the > responsible library is not loaded? > > > > BR/ > Catalin >
