nickcooper-zhangtonghao <n...@opencloud.tech> writes:

> hi Daniele,
> I reviewed this patch. One question to ask: should we check the
> hugepage mm before calling the rte_eal_init()? improvement on next version?

Are you concerned for the possible rte_panic() call which could happen
if the hugepage configuration is not set correctly?

> Thanks.
> Nick
>
>> On Jan 9, 2017, at 11:21 AM, Daniele Di Proietto
>> <diproiet...@vmware.com> wrote:
>> 
>> With this commit, we allow the user to set other_config:dpdk-init=true
>> after the process is started.  This makes it easier to start Open
>> vSwitch with DPDK using standard init scripts without restarting the
>> service.
>> 
>> This is still far from ideal, because initializing DPDK might still
>> abort the process (e.g. if there not enough memory), so the user must
>> check the status of the process after setting dpdk-init to true.
>> 
>> Nonetheless, I think this is an improvement, because it doesn't require
>> restarting the whole unit.
>> 
>> CC: Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com <mailto:acon...@redhat.com>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiet...@vmware.com
>> <mailto:diproiet...@vmware.com>>
>> ---
>> v1->v2: No change, first non-RFC post.
>> ---
>> lib/dpdk-stub.c         |  8 ++++----
>> lib/dpdk.c              | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++----------
>> tests/ofproto-macros.at <http://ofproto-macros.at/> |  2 +-
>> 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
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