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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Aman Kumar <aman.kumar@vvdntech.in>,
	David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	"Song, Keesang" <keesang.song@amd.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] config/x86: add support for AMD platform
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2021 20:04:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1902057.C4l9sbjloW@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8z5vVuCALNcQG9PnTkGViyocfKNxXcR4tCYVTdbo+enSA@mail.gmail.com>

02/11/2021 19:45, David Marchand:
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 3:53 PM Aman Kumar <aman.kumar@vvdntech.in> wrote:
> >
> > -Dcpu_instruction_set=znverX meson option can be used
> > to build dpdk for AMD platforms. Supported options are
> > znver1, znver2 and znver3.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Aman Kumar <aman.kumar@vvdntech.in>
> > ---
> >  config/x86/meson.build              | 9 +++++++++
> >  doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_dpdk.rst | 2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/config/x86/meson.build b/config/x86/meson.build
> > index 29f3dea181..21cda6fd33 100644
> > --- a/config/x86/meson.build
> > +++ b/config/x86/meson.build
> > @@ -72,3 +72,12 @@ endif
> >  dpdk_conf.set('RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE', 64)
> >  dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MAX_LCORE', 128)
> >  dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MAX_NUMA_NODES', 32)
> > +
> > +# AMD platform support
> > +if get_option('cpu_instruction_set') == 'znver1'
> > +    dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MAX_LCORE', 256)
> > +elif get_option('cpu_instruction_set') == 'znver2'
> > +    dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MAX_LCORE', 512)
> > +elif get_option('cpu_instruction_set') == 'znver3'
> > +    dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MAX_LCORE', 512)
> > +endif
> 
> I already replied to a similar patch earlier in this release.
> https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/CAJFAV8z-5amvEnr3mazkTqH-7SZX_C6EqCua6UdMXXHgrcmT6g@mail.gmail.com/
> 
> So repeating the same: do you actually _need_ more than 128 lcores in
> a single DPDK application?

Yes I forgot this previous discussion concluding that we should not increase
more than 128 threads.

The --lcores syntax and David's work on rte_thread_register should unblock
most of use cases.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-02 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-02 14:52 Aman Kumar
2021-11-02 15:18 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-02 15:56   ` Song, Keesang
2021-11-02 18:45 ` David Marchand
2021-11-02 19:04   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2021-11-18 12:25     ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-18 13:52       ` Bruce Richardson
2021-11-18 14:05         ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-24 12:36           ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-12-17 20:12             ` Song, Keesang

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