[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/3] lib/rcu: add RCU library supporting QSBR mechanism

[Honnappa Nagarahalli]

> >
> > 17/04/2019 06:13, Honnappa Nagarahalli:
> > > Dharmik Thakkar (1):
> > >   test/rcu_qsbr: add API and functional tests
> > >
> > > Honnappa Nagarahalli (2):
> > >   rcu: add RCU library supporting QSBR mechanism
> > >   doc/rcu: add lib_rcu documentation
> >
> > Sorry I cannot merge this library in DPDK 19.05-rc2 because of several
> issues:
> Apologies, we will improve our internal CI to add some of these compilations.
> 
> > - 32-bit compilation is broken because of %lx/%lu instead of PRI?64
> I am able to reproduce this issue. However, I am not able to run the
> application. Following is the log on x86, does anyone know what is happening?
> 
> EAL: Detected 28 lcore(s)
> EAL: Detected 2 NUMA nodes
> EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
> EAL: Some devices want iova as va but pa will be used because.. EAL: vfio-
> noiommu mode configured
> EAL: few device bound to UIO
> EAL: Probing VFIO support...
> EAL: VFIO support initialized
> EAL: Cannot get a virtual area: Cannot allocate memory
> EAL: Cannot reserve memory
> EAL: Cannot allocate VA space for memseg list, retrying with different page
> size
> EAL: Cannot allocate VA space on socket 0
> EAL: FATAL: Cannot init memory
> EAL: Cannot init memory
> 
This is resolved. It needed '--legacy-mem' option (thanks Maxime).

> > - shared link is broken because of rcu_log_type not exported
> I am not sure what this is. Is this shared library compilation? Can you please
> let me know how to reproduce this?
> 
> > - some public symbols (variable, macros, functions) are not prefixed
> > with rte
> For my understanding, are you referring to the following symbols?
> rcu_log_type
> RCU_DP_LOG - This is internal to the library, will change it to
> __RTE_RCU_DP_LOG RCU_IS_LOCK_CNT_ZERO - Same as above
> __rcu_qsbr_check_selective __rcu_qsbr_check_all
> 
> >
> > I am not sure about getting it later in 19.05, it may be too late to
> > merge a new library.
> >