[dpdk-dev] DPDK 2.2 build failing with vhost-kni

[Xie, Huawei]

On 4/10/2016 7:26 AM, chintu hetam wrote:
> I am compiling DPDK 2.2 on Fedora 23 and i am seeing following build error
> /home/vcr/devel/dpdk/dpdk-2.2.0/build/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_vhost.c:
> In function ‘kni_sock_poll’:
> /home/vcr/devel/dpdk/dpdk-2.2.0/build/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_vhost.c:254:25:
> error: ‘SOCK_ASYNC_NOSPACE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
>       (!test_and_set_bit(SOCK_ASYNC_NOSPACE, &q->sock->flags) &&
>                          ^

Hi, besides the issue, now user space vhost is the preferred way to
switch packets with the virtual machine, and we have plans to remove kni
vhost support. Do you have any reason to use kni vhost?