Hi,
Thanks for the clarification. I had misunderstood the patch that added the coremask warning and incorrectly assumed that -c was deprecated. Upon closer review, I see that the patch only adds warning logs when using coremask but does not deprecate the -c option. The actual problem is that the warning message includes a '>', which causes send_expect('>') to return prematurely and miss important test output. I will address this in v2 by changing the expected prompt to 'RTE>'.
Hello,
On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM Patrick Robb <probb@iol.unh.edu> wrote:
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> This seems fine in principle.
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> 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.
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> On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM Manit Mahajan <mmahajan@iol.unh.edu> wrote:
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>> 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
There is no --coremask EAL option.
And the option -c was not removed.
Please refine the rca.
>> use the --corelist parameter instead, which is the more common
>> way to specify core assignment in DPDK.
There is no --corelist EAL option.
Only -c, -l and --lcores exist atm.
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David Marchand