[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/7] eal: bring forward init of interrupt handling

Tiwei Bie tiwei.bie at intel.com
Fri Jul 13 11:10:43 CEST 2018


On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 10:09:42AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
[...]
> Well, there was an issue vith virtio at one time (interrupt handler
> did not have the right iopl for virtio callback).
> http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c?id=fd6949c55c9a48e81c625138679159829d51ac51
> 
> Now... time has passed since then.
> It is worth checking the issue is still here, and if it is the case,
> revisit this.

Now rte_virtio_pmd_init() which calls rte_eal_iopl_init()
is called as a constructor [1], so the issue isn't there
any more.

[1] http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c?id=1d406458db47#n1789

Best regards,
Tiwei Bie

> I suppose virtio pmd should deal with this itself.
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Marchand


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