This seems fine in principle.

Did you ever figure out why the compressdev_autotest was failing with coremask used in the first place? I haven't looked at the coremask deprecation patch that you had found, but David said on slack that it didn't remove the option to use the coremask EAL arg, it just discourages it with a warning.

On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM Manit Mahajan <mmahajan@iol.unh.edu> wrote:
The compress_common.py script previously used the --coremask parameter,
which has been removed from DPDK. As a result, zlib_pmd test cases
fail when invoking this script. This patch updates the script to
use the --corelist parameter instead, which is the more common
way to specify core assignment in DPDK.

Signed-off-by: Manit Mahajan <mmahajan@iol.unh.edu>
---
 tests/compress_common.py | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/compress_common.py b/tests/compress_common.py
index aa591270..22ce4b74 100644
--- a/tests/compress_common.py
+++ b/tests/compress_common.py
@@ -94,12 +94,14 @@ def get_input_file(test_case):

 def run_unit(test_case, eal={}):
     cores = test_case.dut.get_core_list("1S/3C/1T")
-    core_mask = utils.create_mask(cores)
+    core_list = []
+    for core in cores:
+        core_list.append(str(core))
+    core_str = ",".join(core_list)
     mem_channels = test_case.dut.get_memory_channels()

     default = default_eals.copy()
-    default["l"] = None
-    default["c"] = core_mask
+    default["l"] = core_str
     default["n"] = mem_channels

     eal_str = get_opt_str(test_case, default, eal)
--
2.41.0