[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] IOPL related fixes

[Kevin Traynor]

On 11/23/2018 04:25 PM, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/23/18 4:53 PM, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>> On 23.11.2018 18:41, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 11/23/18 4:39 PM, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>>>> Patches primary targeted to fix OVS unit test failures with
>>>> DPDK 18.11 due to following error:
>>>>       'IOPL call failed - cannot use virtio PMD'.
>>>
>>> You mention v18.11, do you mean this is a regression?
>>
>> Kind of. But not really a bug. It's just a message that shows up
>> every time you starting the app as a non-root user.
>>
>> The message itself was introduced long time ago, but it wasn't
>> printed for unclear reasons. It's probably some change in logging
>> subsystem uncovered it.
>>
>> I just checked and found that message appears starting from v18.02.
>> But OVS stuck with 17.11 LTS where this message exists, but not
>> printed for some reason. That's why this wasn't an issue previously.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.
> In that case, we may want it in v18.11 LTS, but I think it can wait or
> v18.11.1.
> 

It would be better if it can be in 18.11. Upstream OVS will point at a
release tarball, and at present an 18.11.1 release is not due until
mid-January. If it's too late for 18.11, alternatively we could do an
earlier 18.11.1 release.

> Once in the next-virtio tree, I'll send it to stable at dpdk.org.
> 
> Regards,
> Maxime
> 
>> P.S. OVS tests just checks the output for error messages.
>>       Tests themselves works fine. They are not actually using DPDK.
>>
>> Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> We can avoid test failures in OVS by filtering the output like this:
>>>>     https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/list/?series=77706
>>>> but it still looks very inconvenient for me to have this
>>>> message in the output of every command for the DPDK linked app.
>>>>
>>>> Version 3:
>>>>       * Splitted in two patches.      [David Marchand]
>>>>       * Fixed typo in commit message. [David Marchand]
>>>>
>>>> Version 2:
>>>>       * Fixed possible fd leak on BSD.
>>>>
>>>> Ilya Maximets (2):
>>>>     eal/bsd: fix possible IOPL fd leak
>>>>     net/virtio: avoid annoying IOPL call related errors
>>>>
>>>>    drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c | 11 ++++++-----
>>>>    lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c    |  6 ++++--
>>>>    2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>
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