13/11/2024 18:20, Lombardo, Ed: > Hi, > I have a situation where our NIC driver uses DPDK 22.11 and comes up and > process packets. We added Suricata to our application and it also uses DPDK > 22.11. Both the driver and Suricata are in the same Linux process. When the > Suricata application starts and initializes DPDK with their own EAL init call > it fails. I tried setting the driver DPDK as the primary and the Suricata as > the secondary but still fails. > > The driver DPDK initialization occurs before the Suricata DPDK initialization. > > Also the driver DPDK has its own hugepages and Suricata has its own hugepages. > > What is the proper way to accommodate two DPDK instances in the same Linux > application process?
1 application must call rte_eal_init() only once. I wonder how you can integrate Suricata into your application. Isn't it a standalone application?
