From: Matthew G McGovern <mamcg...@microsoft.com>
Problem: Some devices do not allow promiscuous mode.
Testpmd handles this by warning and ignoring failures from
rte_eth_promiscuous_enable.
Changes: make mp example apps warn if promiscuous mode cannot be
enabled, rather than failing.
Signed-off-by: Matthew G McGovern <mamcg...@microsoft.com>
---
v3:
* fix incorrect statement in v2 2/2 commit message
* squash small changes to a single commit
examples/multi_process/client_server_mp/mp_server/init.c | 4 +++-
examples/multi_process/symmetric_mp/main.c | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/examples/multi_process/client_server_mp/mp_server/init.c
b/examples/multi_process/client_server_mp/mp_server/init.c
index 65713dbea8..87acc38101 100644
--- a/examples/multi_process/client_server_mp/mp_server/init.c
+++ b/examples/multi_process/client_server_mp/mp_server/init.c
@@ -134,7 +134,9 @@ init_port(uint16_t port_num)
retval = rte_eth_promiscuous_enable(port_num);
if (retval < 0)
- return retval;
+ fprintf(stderr,
+ "Error during enabling promiscuous mode for port %u: %s
- ignore\n",
+ retval, rte_strerror(-retval));
retval = rte_eth_dev_start(port_num);
if (retval < 0) return retval;
diff --git a/examples/multi_process/symmetric_mp/main.c
b/examples/multi_process/symmetric_mp/main.c
index f7d8439cd4..22ede756fd 100644
--- a/examples/multi_process/symmetric_mp/main.c
+++ b/examples/multi_process/symmetric_mp/main.c
@@ -275,7 +275,9 @@ smp_port_init(uint16_t port, struct rte_mempool *mbuf_pool,
retval = rte_eth_promiscuous_enable(port);
if (retval != 0)
- return retval;
+ fprintf(stderr,
+ "Error during enabling promiscuous mode for port %u: %s
- ignore\n",
+ retval, rte_strerror(-retval));
retval = rte_eth_dev_start(port);
if (retval < 0)
--
2.34.1
