I?ve built the DPDK along with code in both C and C++. It works fine as long as you get the linkage between the languages correct and make sure that you don?t pass C++ headers into files compiled with the C compiler.
I did try building the DPDK itself with the ?g++? compiler (v4.8.4, Ubuntu 14.04, 64bit), and I wasn?t able to get that working out of the box. I got hundreds of warnings, but I didn?t take the time to debug it ? it?s possible that a few point fixes in the build system / DPDK code might yield a clean compile. Thanks, Nick From: "Wiles, Keith" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 12:04 PM To: David Aldrich <David.Aldrich at EMEA.NEC.COM> Cc: "users at dpdk.org" <users at dpdk.org> Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Is DPDK compatible with C++11 threads? On Nov 8, 2016, at 5:12 AM, David Aldrich <David.Aldrich at EMEA.NEC.COM<mailto:David.Aldrich at EMEA.NEC.COM>> wrote: Hi As a beginner with DPDK, I want to consider how we can convert an existing Linux application from using the kernel network stack to using DPDK. This existing app is multi-threaded, using the C++11 thread, mutex etc. classes. We assign threads to cores by calling pthread_setaffinity_np(). I have looked at the DPDK helloworld application and see that it launches threads using the DPDK API: /* call lcore_hello() on every slave lcore */ RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_SLAVE(lcore_id) { rte_eal_remote_launch(lcore_hello, NULL, lcore_id); } If we use DPDK, can we retain our existing C++11 threads or are we obliged to use the DPDK threading APIs exclusively? You should be able to use the standard C++11 threads I believe, in DPDK we are just using pthreads and set affinity to lock a thread to a core. You can still use pthreads in your application. Perhaps a more basic question is applicable: is DPDK compatible with C++? I believe building DPDK with C++ code does work, but I have not tried it myself. Best regards David Best regards David Regards, Keith
