From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-we0-x22f.google.com (mail-we0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::22f]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 183C230E for ; Fri, 31 May 2013 00:20:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-we0-f175.google.com with SMTP id p60so707152wes.20 for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 15:20:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=951Z6FZc61ggJWvEtDJ8cQNdruwONDXZ2NtkUhafCtM=; b=HFt4C8kyGYnErTMO5aLO16HZVNLo22ZqouJ8SrgJmHTa/6js2GuI+J/KT3DZi7e9ql 5Ed+NzpBlnQRdGjtxkPib7fz82LFgyc/ekzz4gi5QM6gxtnTV21rQ+aRR4WxHGScLuH4 P6/TrNgm4iiz30jle7WX1Xapzh7CCgxyewuK6tOsScduhPvgFaVkCCoAdacKNXQ5V1LM 8mEO/Mm7LzLsnNeKtKkrQ6NgyPU+xmpb5LJimkyV1F5VP4MAfScASTWj1hkwsIiNumxZ 94wpA6R2xrHWLDd6O8ZuSN/ysP96LGbS8YArAHVcyaxL9r7p31WqYsdNK85mj7t9ayb1 soUw== X-Received: by 10.194.59.72 with SMTP id x8mr6797747wjq.49.1369952432331; Thu, 30 May 2013 15:20:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from x220.localnet (abo-26-39-68.mts.modulonet.fr. [85.68.39.26]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id d10sm282005wik.0.2013.05.30.15.20.30 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 30 May 2013 15:20:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Stephen Hemminger Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 00:20:47 +0200 Message-ID: <2903290.vL9H7X0DTr@x220> Organization: 6WIND User-Agent: KMail/4.10.3 (Linux/3.9.3-1-ARCH; KDE/4.10.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20130530171234.301927271@vyatta.com> References: <20130530171234.301927271@vyatta.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkhFi6VkPT7UWaQ+EWu9rnFrVESM3lCZhm/4Nc0/fXIArIW9Q+CWmQmxif7EyI+z12C+85s Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/7] Vyatta patches X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 22:20:26 -0000 Hello, 30/05/2013 10:12, Stephen Hemminger : > This is a subset of the Vyatta patches we use. They include some bug > fixes and simple changes to make life easier. Thank you > One fix not included is the NUMA cpu assignment. The original Intel code > in 1.2 incorrectly used /proc/cpuinfo to try and assign CPU's to NUMA > socket. The problem is that /proc/cpuinfo physical_id corresponds to what > the BIOS tells the kernel and is intended for messages only. For example, > on our Dell boxes the first CPU and only CPU is reported as physical_id 1! > The fix is to use sysfs instead, and Intel did incorporate my fix in the > next DPDK version, and don't want to confuse this code base by putting in a > conflicting change. If I understand well, Intel could release this patch among other ones and they don't want to handle this patch separately. Maybe we could apply it now but if it's not urgent and if Intel plan to release it soon, we may wait for the Intel drop. -- Thomas