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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Kevin Wilson <wkevils@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>, users@dpdk.org
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 ?
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 11:05:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160816110526.144625fb@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXs5wWjogn52aL=HJCOKSHW2K8jRd4TrQiV0ETMDQ=BJRjPig@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 20:41:42 +0300
Kevin Wilson <wkevils@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Metthew.
> Indeed,  something seems broken in that machine,
> 
> Running
> dmidecode
> gives:
> .....
> Invalid entry length (0). DMI table is broken! Stop
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net> wrote:
> > 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.  

What if you have a two socket machine, and node 0 is not populated?

Also does the kernel have NUMA support enabled?

Long ago there was a bug in DPDK where it got NUMA socket info from /proc/cpuinfo.
On some machines, the 'physical id' starts at 1 because value comes from BIOS.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-16 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-15  6:51 Kevin Wilson
2016-07-18 19:13 ` Matthew Hall
2016-08-16 17:41   ` Kevin Wilson
2016-08-16 18:05     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2016-08-16 18:09       ` Matthew Hall

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