From patchwork Tue Jan 30 12:17:02 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Varghese, Vipin" X-Patchwork-Id: 34701 X-Patchwork-Delegate: thomas@monjalon.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A7C41B40F; Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:17:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 585321B3FA; Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:17:00 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga006.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.20]) by fmsmga104.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 30 Jan 2018 04:16:59 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.46,434,1511856000"; d="scan'208";a="199925167" Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([10.224.122.203]) by fmsmga006.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 30 Jan 2018 04:16:57 -0800 From: Vipin Varghese To: dev@dpdk.org, marko.kovacevic@intel.com Cc: stable@dpdk.org, john.mcnamara@intel.com, Vipin Varghese Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:47:02 +0530 Message-Id: <1517314622-19439-1-git-send-email-vipin.varghese@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update procinfo for shared library X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" added note category to procinfo guide, to intimate users in shared library mode. Procinfo requires same NIC libraries to probe the NIC devices as Primary Application. Signed-off-by: Vipin Varghese Acked-by: Marko Kovacevic --- doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst b/doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst index fd17e27..78c5a9e 100644 --- a/doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst +++ b/doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst @@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ statistics, resetting port statistics and printing DPDK memory information. This application extends the original functionality that was supported by dump_cfg. +.. Note:: + When running `dpdk-procinfo`` with shared library mode, it is required to + pass the same NIC PMD libraries as used for the primary application. Any + mismatch in PMD library arguments can lead to undefined behaviour and results + affecting primary application too. + Running the Application ----------------------- The application has a number of command line options: