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From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: support using 0 as coremask for no-affinitization
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 10:52:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42706d4c-f8de-55c5-1161-b1e54c77599e@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210216104652.GB136@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com>

On 16-Feb-21 10:46 AM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 10:36:13AM +0000, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
>> On 16-Feb-21 9:43 AM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>>> Allow the user to specify that they don't want any core pinning from DPDK
>>> by passing in the coremask of 0.
>>> ---
>>
>> I haven't checked what happens yet, but down the line we also set affinity
>> for service cores as well as interrupt thread. what would be the semantics
>> of those in this particular case? do we want the same ability for service
>> cores (i.e. pick a non-affinitized core)? And where does interrupt thread
>> affinitize in this case (presumably, nowhere too)?
>>
> I have not checked the service core setup, because a) I forgot about them
> and b) I'm not sure how their affinity rules work with respect to the main
> lcore mask. On the other hand I did check out that the lcore mask for all
> non-pinned threads, or control threads, is the full set of bits as
> expected.
> 
> /Bruce
> 

+Harry,

I believe service core mask must not overlap with lcore masks, so 
presumably using 0 as lcore mask would make it so that any service core 
mask will be valid (which is presumably what we want?). Should service 
cores also have a "just pick a core" parameter?

I'm assuming this use-case is explicitly avoiding the CPU/memory/NIA 
NUMA affinity question, so i'm not bringing it up :)

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-16 10:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-16  9:43 Bruce Richardson
2021-02-16  9:51 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-04-14 16:15   ` David Marchand
2021-04-14 16:29     ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-04-14 17:02       ` Bruce Richardson
2021-04-14 16:55     ` Bruce Richardson
2021-02-16 10:36 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-02-16 10:46   ` Bruce Richardson
2021-02-16 10:52     ` Burakov, Anatoly [this message]
2021-02-16 17:22       ` Van Haaren, Harry
2021-02-16 17:30         ` Bruce Richardson
2021-02-16 17:44           ` Van Haaren, Harry
2021-02-17 12:09             ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-02-17 12:14               ` Van Haaren, Harry
2021-02-17 13:26                 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-02-17 13:37                   ` Burakov, Anatoly

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