Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Extend --lcores to run on cores > RTE_MAX_LCORE

["Song, Keesang" <Keesang.Song@amd.com>]

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Hi Thomas & David,

We haven't got the final status on this patch, and I don't see this change even from the latest LTS 20.04 repo.
So I'd like to confirm whether this patch has been safely submitted to the main upstream.
Can you check the status of that commit?

https://patchwork.dpdk.org/patch/63507/

Thanks for your support in advance,
Keesang

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> 
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020 12:04 AM
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org; aconole@redhat.com; ferruh.yigit@intel.com; Song, Keesang <Keesang.Song@amd.com>; bluca@debian.org; ktraynor@redhat.com; bruce.richardson@intel.com; honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com; drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com; stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Extend --lcores to run on cores > RTE_MAX_LCORE

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Hi,

21/01/2020 01:24, Thomas Monjalon:
> 02/12/2019 16:35, David Marchand:
> > We are currently stuck with no option but recompile a DPDK if the 
> > system has more cores than RTE_MAX_LCORE.
> > A bit of a pity when you get a system with more than 200+ cores and 
> > your testpmd has been built and packaged with RTE_MAX_LCORE == 128.
> >
> > The --lcores does not need to care about the underlying cores, 
> > remove this limitation.
>
> > David Marchand (4):
> >   eal/windows: fix cpuset macro name
> >   eal: do not cache lcore detection state
> >   eal: display all detected cores at startup
> >   eal: remove limitation on cpuset with --lcores
>
> The patches look good but it is very hard to review parsing code (last patch).
> We will better experience corner cases after merging.
>
> Applied for -rc1, thanks

This patch was merged in 20.02.
We don't have any feedback about issues so it's probably working fine.

It is solving a problem for running DPDK on machines having a lot of cores.
Now the difficult question: is it a new feature or a fix?
Should we backport this patchset?