From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.mhcomputing.net (master.mhcomputing.net [74.208.228.170]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E62702B8E for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2016 21:13:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail.mhcomputing.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 67A0CD7; Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:13:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:13:50 -0700 From: Matthew Hall To: Kevin Wilson Cc: users@dpdk.org Message-ID: <20160718191350.GB19151@mhcomputing.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Which coremask and "-n" (number of mem channels) should be used for a system with only "node1" (no "node0") and 2 sockets ? X-BeenThere: users@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: usage discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 19:13:51 -0000 On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 09:51:42AM +0300, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hello, > I have a machine on which there is a bit non common setup: I have only > "node1" (no node0) under /sys/devices/system/node: > ls /sys/devices/system/node/ > ... > node1 > ... If I had to guess then either the BIOS is busted or the CPU is in the wrong socket or the RAM is in the wrong socket. Either way all bets are off how this is going to pan out. Probably badly when it comes to getting the top performance. Some exploration of the dmidecode output on the machine could be valuable. Matthew.