Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] eal: add error check for core options

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 02:51:28PM +0000, Marko Kovacevic wrote:
> Error information on current core usage list, mask or map
> were incomplete. Added states to differentiate core usage
> and to inform user.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

This is fine as-is - one comment below for future consideration.
> 
> ---
> 
> V3:
>  - Changed to reflect the coding guidelines - Bruce
>  - update the documentation for better clarity - Bruce
>  - Added back the reviewer information - Anatoly
> 
> V2:
>  - Cleaned up the logging for error cases - Anatoly
> ---
>  doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst      |  4 ++++
>  lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst
> index 46da1df..85e725f 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst
> @@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ See the DPDK Getting Started Guides for more information on these options.
>      The grouping ``()`` can be omitted for single element group.
>      The ``@`` can be omitted if cpus and lcores have the same value.
>  
> +.. Note::
> +    At a given instance only one core option ``--lcores``, ``-l`` or ``-c`` can be used.
> +
> +
>  *   ``--master-lcore ID``
>  
>      Core ID that is used as master.
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> index b6d2762..66f0868 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> @@ -57,6 +57,9 @@
>  #include "eal_filesystem.h"
>  
>  #define BITS_PER_HEX 4
> +#define LCORE_OPT_LST 1
> +#define LCORE_OPT_MSK 2
> +#define LCORE_OPT_MAP 3
>  
>  const char
>  eal_short_options[] =
> @@ -1028,7 +1031,16 @@ eal_parse_common_option(int opt, const char *optarg,
>  			RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "invalid coremask\n");
>  			return -1;
>  		}
> -		core_parsed = 1;
> +
> +		if (core_parsed) {
> +			RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Option -c is ignored, because (%s) is set!\n",
> +				(core_parsed == LCORE_OPT_LST) ? "-l" :
> +				(core_parsed == LCORE_OPT_MAP) ? "--lcore" :
> +				"-c");

This block is repeated in slightly different forms 3 times. It should
probably be replaced using a function or macro to return the appropriate
string based on core_parsed value.

Thanks,
/Bruce