[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/7] service cores: EAL init changes

Harry van Haaren harry.van.haaren at intel.com
Sun Jul 2 23:35:09 CEST 2017


This commit shows the changes required in rte_eal_init()
to transparently launch the service threads. The threads
are launched into the service worker functions here because
after rte_eal_init() the application is not gauranteed to
call any other DPDK API.

As the registration of services happens at initialization
time, the services that require CPU time are already available
when we reach the end of rte_eal_init().

Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>

---

v2 comments:
- Include BSD implementation (Jerin)
- Move details of core-tracking into rte_service_lcore_add(Jerin)
- Given there are changes other to suggested, not using Ack
---
 lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c   | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
index 05f0c1f..4f7dcb3 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -653,6 +653,17 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 	rte_eal_mp_remote_launch(sync_func, NULL, SKIP_MASTER);
 	rte_eal_mp_wait_lcore();
 
+	/* initialize services first so vdevs can register during bus_probe.
+	 * Ignore return value of already initialized, this means EAL parameter
+	 * -s was used to set a service-core mask.
+	 */
+	ret = rte_service_init();
+	if (ret) {
+		rte_eal_init_alert("rte_service_init() failed\n");
+		rte_errno = ENOEXEC;
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	/* Probe all the buses and devices/drivers on them */
 	if (rte_bus_probe()) {
 		rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot probe devices\n");
@@ -660,6 +671,17 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 		return -1;
 	}
 
+	/* initialize default services configuration */
+	uint32_t service_cores[RTE_MAX_LCORE];
+	int count = rte_service_lcore_list(service_cores, RTE_MAX_LCORE);
+	for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
+		rte_service_lcore_start(service_cores[i]);
+	ret = rte_service_set_default_mapping();
+	if (ret) {
+		rte_errno = ENOEXEC;
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	rte_eal_mcfg_complete();
 
 	return fctret;
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index 7c78f2d..d63dd87 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@
 #include <rte_version.h>
 #include <rte_atomic.h>
 #include <malloc_heap.h>
+#include <rte_service_private.h>
 
 #include "eal_private.h"
 #include "eal_thread.h"
@@ -932,6 +933,17 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 	rte_eal_mp_remote_launch(sync_func, NULL, SKIP_MASTER);
 	rte_eal_mp_wait_lcore();
 
+	/* initialize services first so vdevs can register during bus_probe.
+	 * Ignore return value of already initialized, this means EAL parameter
+	 * -s was used to set a service-core mask.
+	 */
+	ret = rte_service_init();
+	if (ret) {
+		rte_eal_init_alert("rte_service_init() failed\n");
+		rte_errno = ENOEXEC;
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	/* Probe all the buses and devices/drivers on them */
 	if (rte_bus_probe()) {
 		rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot probe devices\n");
@@ -939,6 +951,17 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 		return -1;
 	}
 
+	/* initialize default services configuration */
+	uint32_t service_cores[RTE_MAX_LCORE];
+	int count = rte_service_lcore_list(service_cores, RTE_MAX_LCORE);
+	for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
+		rte_service_lcore_start(service_cores[i]);
+	ret = rte_service_set_default_mapping();
+	if (ret) {
+		rte_errno = ENOEXEC;
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	rte_eal_mcfg_complete();
 
 	return fctret;
-- 
2.7.4



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