2014-08-26 16:11, David Marchand:
> This patch series is just a little clean up to remove the unconditionnal call
> to
> iopl on linux.
> Rather than call iopl() at the eal level, let the PMD that needs it call
> rte_eal_iopl_init().
Acked and applied
Thanks for the cleanup
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Thomas
> -Original Message-
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of David Marchand
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 10:12 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC 0/3] only call iopl when necessary
>
> This patch series is just a little c
Yes. Iopl is to allow out from user space. I played with ioperm instead but
that is per thread and was a nuisance.
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 6:05 PM
> To: Xie, Huawei
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC 0/3] only call iopl when necessary
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Xie, Huawei intel.com<mailto:huawei.xie at intel.com>> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Xie, Huawei wrote:
> That is ok. If virtio PMD is a dynamic linked library, is it possible
> that virtio PMD is loaded later?
>
The shared library are loaded through -d option, which are loaded just
before the call to rte_eal_dev_init().
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David Marchand
>
Hello,
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Xie, Huawei wrote:
> Hi David:
> The reason iopl is put in rte_eal_init is that we want all later created
> DPDK processes/threads inherit the iopl permission.
> If you only call iopl in pmd_init, RX/TX and other threads which needs io
> permission will s
-dev] [PATCH RFC 0/3] only call iopl when necessary
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Xie, Huawei mailto:huawei.xie at intel.com>> wrote:
That is ok. If virtio PMD is a dynamic linked library, is it possible that
virtio PMD is loaded later?
The shared library are loaded through -d option, whi
That is ok. If virtio PMD is a dynamic linked library, is it possible that
virtio PMD is loaded later?
From: David Marchand [mailto:david.march...@6wind.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 5:34 PM
To: Xie, Huawei
Cc: dev at dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC 0/3] only call iopl when
m: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of David Marchand
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 10:12 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC 0/3] only call iopl when necessary
>
> This patch series is just a little clean up to remove the unconditionnal call
This patch series is just a little clean up to remove the unconditionnal call to
iopl on linux.
Rather than call iopl() at the eal level, let the PMD that needs it call
rte_eal_iopl_init().
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David Marchand
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