It's possible for dpdk initialization to fail either due to an internal error or an invalid configuration. When that happens, it's rather impolite to immediately abort. Worse, any respawn mechanism will be contsantly restarting the ovs-vswitchd process only to have an ovs-assert be hit.
With this change, a failed dpdk initialization attempt will no longer trigger a SIGABRT. Instead, the failure will be logged, and OvS will continue to operate sans dpdk. A restart of OvS would still be required to re-attempt initialization. Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com> --- lib/dpdk.c | 18 ++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/dpdk.c b/lib/dpdk.c index 00dd97470..876ba01f1 100644 --- a/lib/dpdk.c +++ b/lib/dpdk.c @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #include <sys/stat.h> #include <getopt.h> +#include <rte_errno.h> #include <rte_log.h> #include <rte_memzone.h> #include <rte_version.h> @@ -306,7 +307,7 @@ static cookie_io_functions_t dpdk_log_func = { .write = dpdk_log_write, }; -static void +static bool dpdk_init__(const struct smap *ovs_other_config) { char **argv = NULL, **argv_to_release = NULL; @@ -422,10 +423,11 @@ dpdk_init__(const struct smap *ovs_other_config) /* Make sure things are initialized ... */ result = rte_eal_init(argc, argv); + argv_release(argv, argv_to_release, argc); if (result < 0) { - ovs_abort(result, "Cannot init EAL"); + VLOG_EMER("Unable to initialize DPDK: %s", ovs_strerror(rte_errno)); + return false; } - argv_release(argv, argv_to_release, argc); /* Set the main thread affinity back to pre rte_eal_init() value */ if (auto_determine && !err) { @@ -459,6 +461,7 @@ dpdk_init__(const struct smap *ovs_other_config) /* Finally, register the dpdk classes */ netdev_dpdk_register(); + return true; } void @@ -476,10 +479,13 @@ dpdk_init(const struct smap *ovs_other_config) if (ovsthread_once_start(&once_enable)) { VLOG_INFO("Using %s", rte_version()); VLOG_INFO("DPDK Enabled - initializing..."); - dpdk_init__(ovs_other_config); - enabled = true; - VLOG_INFO("DPDK Enabled - initialized"); + enabled = dpdk_init__(ovs_other_config); + if (enabled) { + VLOG_INFO("DPDK Enabled - initialized"); + } ovsthread_once_done(&once_enable); + } else { + VLOG_ERR_ONCE("DPDK Initialization Failed."); } } else { VLOG_INFO_ONCE("DPDK Disabled - Use other_config:dpdk-init to enable"); -- 2.14.3 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev