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dpdk: Deprecate pdump support.
The conventional way for packet dumping in OVS is to use ovs-tcpdump that works via traffic mirroring. DPDK pdump could probably be used for some lower level debugging, but it is not commonly used for various reasons. There are lots of limitations for using this functionality in practice. Most of them connected with running secondary pdump process and memory layout issues like requirement to disable ASLR in kernel. More details are available in DPDK guide: https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.html#multi-process-limitations Beside the functional limitations it's also hard to use this functionality correctly. User must be sure that OVS and pdump utility are running on different CPU cores, which is hard because non-PMD threads could float over available CPU cores. This or any other misconfiguration will likely lead to crash of the pdump utility or/and OVS. Another problem is that the user must actually have this special pdump utility in a system and it might be not available in distributions. This change disables pdump support by default introducing special configuration option '--enable-dpdk-pdump'. Deprecation warnings will be shown to users on configuration and in runtime. Claiming to completely remove this functionality from OVS in one of the next releases. Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org> Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com> Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org> Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
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@@ -434,6 +434,8 @@ dpdk_init__(const struct smap *ovs_other_config)
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#ifdef DPDK_PDUMP
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VLOG_INFO("DPDK pdump packet capture enabled");
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VLOG_WARN("DPDK pdump support is deprecated and "
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"will be removed in next OVS releases.");
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err = rte_pdump_init(ovs_rundir());
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if (err) {
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VLOG_INFO("Error initialising DPDK pdump");
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