Thanks, it makes sense. I'll get around to it "eventually".

On Thu, 2023-11-02 at 11:04 +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> While looking at Seastar, I see it uses this patch on top of DPDK:
> 
>         build: add meson options of max_memseg_lists
> 
>         RTE_MAX_MEMSEG_LISTS = 128 is not enough for high-memory
> machines,
>         in our case, we need to increase it to 8192.
>         so add an option so user can override it.
> 
>         https://github.com/scylladb/dpdk/commit/cafaa3cf457584de
> 
> I think we could allow to configure this at runtime,
> as we did already for RTE_MAX_MEMZONE:
> we've added rte_memzone_max_set() / rte_memzone_max_get().
> 
> Opinions, comments, volunteers?
> 
>