[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] xen: allow choosing dom0 support at runtime
Liu, Jijiang
jijiang.liu at intel.com
Thu Feb 26 07:53:24 CET 2015
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:stephen at networkplumber.org]
> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2015 10:28 PM
> To: Liu, Jijiang
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger; dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] xen: allow choosing dom0 support at
> runtime
>
> 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.
>
Ok, thanks for the explanation.
Could you replace 'internal_config.xen_dom0_support' with 'is_xen_dom0_supported()' in the function rte_eal_hugepage_init()?
/* check if app runs on Xen Dom0 */
if (internal_config.xen_dom0_support) {
#ifdef RTE_LIBRTE_XEN_DOM0
/* use dom0_mm kernel driver to init memory */
if (rte_xen_dom0_memory_init() < 0)
return -1;
else
return 0;
#endif
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