If OVS is started with a cpu affinity which starts at a core >= 128, EAL won't be able to run since the -l option is limited to RTE_MAX_LCORES (which defaults to 128 on x86_64).
Instead map the first discovered cpu to lcore 0. Reported-at: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/FDP-1312 Fixes: 88964e6428dc ("netdev-dpdk: Autofill lcore coremask if absent") Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> --- lib/dpdk.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/dpdk.c b/lib/dpdk.c index 2d22e2b8dd..1f4f2bf083 100644 --- a/lib/dpdk.c +++ b/lib/dpdk.c @@ -364,8 +364,8 @@ dpdk_init__(const struct smap *ovs_other_config) * thread affintity - default to core #0 */ VLOG_ERR("Thread getaffinity failed. Using core #0"); } - svec_add(&args, "-l"); - svec_add_nocopy(&args, xasprintf("%d", cpu)); + svec_add(&args, "--lcores"); + svec_add_nocopy(&args, xasprintf("0@%d", cpu)); } svec_terminate(&args); -- 2.49.0 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev