Some DPDK applications wrongly assume these requirements:
- no hotplug, i.e. ports are never detached
- all allocated ports are available to the application
Such application assume a valid port index is in the range [0..count[.
There are three consequences when using such wrong design:
- new ports having an index higher than the port count won't be valid
- old ports being detached (RTE_ETH_DEV_UNUSED) can be valid
Such mistake will be less common with growing hotplug awareness.
All applications and examples inside this repository - except testpmd -
must be fixed to use the function rte_eth_dev_is_valid_port.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Moved duplicated, and occasionally outdated, doc sections from each
of the sample app guides chapters to a common chapter at the start.
This reduces the duplication in the docs and provides a single
point of reference for compiling the sample apps.
Signed-off-by: Herakliusz Lipiec <herakliusz.lipiec@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
Since port id has changed from uint8_t to uint16_t in dpdk code,
So update the change in related doc.
Fixes: f8244c6399 ("ethdev: increase port id range")
Signed-off-by: Zhiyong Yang <zhiyong.yang@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
The coremask option in DPDK is difficult to use and we should be
promoting the use of the corelist (-l) option. The patch
adjusts the docs to use -l EAL option instead of the -c option.
The patch only changes the docs and not the code as the -c option
will continue to exist unless it is removed in the future. The -c
option should be kept to maintain backward compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Added a sample application guide for the rxtx_callbacks app.
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Siobhan Butler <siobhan.a.butler@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
