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

[David Marchand]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie at intel.com> wrote:
> 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.

If the virtio pmd is loaded dynamically, eal_plugins_init() is still
called before rte_eal_intr_init().
Yes, for this case, it looks to be fine with Anatoly change.


-- 
David Marchand