2017-04-11 14:02, john miller: > > We are seeing an issue when running from the head of the master branch in > dpdk-next-net and building with CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB=y. When we run > testpmd using -d to point to our PMD we get this error > > EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1 > Cause: Creation of mbuf pool for socket 0 failed: Invalid argument > > This error occurs as a result of the rte mempool ops table having 0 entries. > This table is populated from a call to rte_mempool_register_ops(). This > function gets called in rte_mempool_ring.c via the static initialization > MACRO MEMPOOL_REGISTER_OPS and exists in librte_mempool_ring.so. However > this library is not loaded when the rte_eal_init() gets called so the static > initializers are not yet loaded. > > I am requesting advice on the proper way to repair this.
We should just add a better error message if no mempool driver is available.
