AW: rte_eth_dev_count_avail returns different value in library

[Robert Hable]

Hello Dimitry,

Yes, I am building DPDK as static library. As far as I have seen it should also be the default option on windows builds?

I tried linking the following libraries to my application, which is using my own dpdk-library, but I had no success in using any dpdk functionality (rte_eth_dev_count_avail() returns 0).
In the linker output I found out that the libraries are currently unused:

1>Unused libraries:
1>  C:\Dev\Extern\dpdk\build\lib\librte_eal.a
1>  C:\Dev\Extern\dpdk\build\lib\librte_mbuf.a
1>  C:\Dev\Extern\dpdk\build\lib\librte_mempool.a
1>  C:\Dev\Extern\dpdk\build\lib\librte_ethdev.a
1>  C:\Dev\Extern\dpdk\build\drivers\librte_common_mlx5.a
1>  C:\Dev\Extern\dpdk\build\drivers\librte_net_mlx5.a

Do you have any other ideas what I am missing there and why they are not linked to it? Is it may be possible to include all the PMD libraries already in my own library, so I only need to link against one library?
Yes, rte_eth_dev_count_avail() is called directly after rte_eal_init().

By the way I am using the visual studio 2022 compiler to build my own application and clang for compiling dpdk if that matters.

Kind regards,
Robert

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com> 
Gesendet: Freitag, 28. Oktober 2022 12:48
An: Robert Hable <Robert.Hable at spusu.at>
Cc: users at dpdk.org
Betreff: Re: rte_eth_dev_count_avail returns different value in library

2022-10-28 09:45 (UTC+0000), Robert Hable:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to build a static library based on the skeleton example. My problem is when calling rte_eth_dev_count_avail() I always receive 0 in the static library. When I start the skeleton example app as a regular exe file, then it returns 2.
> What could be the reason that rte_eth_dev_count_avail() returns different values depending on if it is an exe application or a static library?
> 
> rte_eal_init() is called in both applications with the default parameters.
> Both processes are running under the same administrator user.
> 
> I am using Windows Server 2022 with a Mellanox ConnectX-4 on DPDK V 22.11.0-rc0.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Robert Hable
> 

Hi Robert,

Are you building DPDK as static libraries?
Shared build is currently non-functional on Windows.

If so, are you linking PMD libraries (librte_common_mlx5, librte_net_mlx5) to the application that is using your static library?
If relevant PMD libraries are not linked, HW will not be discovered (same for mempools BTW).

It is irrelevant from where rte_eth_dev_count_avail() is called, but please check that in both cases it is done after rte_eal_init().