On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 04:07:21 +0000 "Liu, Jijiang" <jijiang.liu at intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Stephen, > > What do you mean ' allow choosing dom0 support at runtime'? > If you mean user can choose DPDK to run Xen Dom0 or not on DOM0 by a runtime > flag, I don't think your change can achieve this goal. > > Thanks > Jijiang Liu With the existing DPDK model if application is built with DOM0 support it will not work (it crashes) if the application is run in a non DOM0 environment (with real huge pages). And vice-versa if application is built without DOM0 support and it will crash if run in Xen Paravirt mode. This patch allows the library to be built in such a way that only one version needs to be shipped which is important for distro's like RHEL who want to ship a shared library. And also important for users like Brocade/Vyatta who build one binary that needs to work on bare Linux and in Xen PV mode.
