From: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
To: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Cc: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>, dev@dpdk.org, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/mlx: fix rdma-core glue path with EAL plugins
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 17:07:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180302170742.5552983b@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180302141211.30818-1-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 15:15:17 +0100
Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> wrote:
> Glue object files are looked up in RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH by default when
> set and should be installed in this directory.
>
> During startup, EAL attempts to load them automatically like other
> plug-ins found there. While normally harmless, dlopen() fails when
> rdma-core is not installed, EAL interprets this as a fatal error and
> terminates the application.
>
> This patch requests glue objects to be installed in a different
> directory to prevent their automatic loading by EAL since they are
> PMD helpers, not actual DPDK plug-ins.
>
> Fixes: f6242d0655cd ("net/mlx: make rdma-core glue path configurable")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>
> Reported-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Tested-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
Tested with and without libibverbs installed and with an old version of
libibverbs installed and it works like it should.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-02 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-01 12:43 [PATCH] net/mlx: fix rdma-core glue path with EAL plugins Adrien Mazarguil
2018-03-02 14:15 ` [PATCH v2] " Adrien Mazarguil
2018-03-02 16:07 ` Timothy Redaelli [this message]
2018-03-12 10:05 ` Shahaf Shuler
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