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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com, thomas@monjalon.net
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] build: add PPC64 Meson build
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:50:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180910105029.GB24376@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180907183502.26164-1-bluca@debian.org>

On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 07:35:02PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> This has been only build-tested for now, on a native ppc64el POWER8E
> machine running Debian sid.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
> ---
> The build box cannot be used to run DPDK as it doesn't have supported
> NICs and root access. Would be great if someone could run-test it, but
> at this point I think build support is enough to get started.
> 
>  config/meson.build                               |  8 ++++++++
>  config/ppc_64/meson.build                        | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  lib/librte_eal/common/arch/ppc_64/meson.build    |  5 +++++
>  .../common/include/arch/ppc_64/meson.build       | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 44 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 config/ppc_64/meson.build
>  create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/common/arch/ppc_64/meson.build
>  create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/ppc_64/meson.build
> 
> diff --git a/config/meson.build b/config/meson.build
> index 4d755323f4..8e87b344c2 100644
> --- a/config/meson.build
> +++ b/config/meson.build
> @@ -9,7 +9,13 @@ else
>  endif
>  dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MACHINE', machine)
>  machine_args = []
> +# ppc64 does not support -march=native
> +if host_machine.cpu_family().startswith('ppc') and machine == 'native'
> +machine_args += '-mcpu=' + machine
> +machine_args += '-mtune=' + machine
> +else
>  machine_args += '-march=' + machine
> +endif

Indentation?

>  
>  toolchain = cc.get_id()
>  dpdk_conf.set_quoted('RTE_TOOLCHAIN', toolchain)
> @@ -84,6 +90,8 @@ if host_machine.cpu_family().startswith('x86')
>  	arch_subdir = 'x86'
>  elif host_machine.cpu_family().startswith('arm') or host_machine.cpu_family().startswith('aarch')
>  	arch_subdir = 'arm'
> +elif host_machine.cpu_family().startswith('ppc')
> +	arch_subdir = 'ppc_64'
>  endif
>  subdir(arch_subdir)
>  dpdk_conf.set('RTE_COMPILE_TIME_CPUFLAGS', ','.join(compile_time_cpuflags))
> diff --git a/config/ppc_64/meson.build b/config/ppc_64/meson.build
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..d6faa7d64f
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/config/ppc_64/meson.build
> @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> +# Copyright(c) 2018 Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
> +
> +# for checking defines we need to use the correct compiler flags
> +march_opt = '-march=@0@'.format(machine)

This contradicts the statement above in config/meson.build where you state
that ppc64 doesn't support "-march=native"?

> +
> +dpdk_conf.set('RTE_ARCH', 'ppc_64')
> +dpdk_conf.set('RTE_ARCH_PPC_64', 1)
> +dpdk_conf.set('RTE_ARCH_64', 1)
> +
> +# overrides specific to ppc64
> +dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MAX_LCORE', 256)
> +dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MAX_NUMA_NODES', 32)
> +dpdk_conf.set('RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE', 128)
> +dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MAX_LCORE', 256)
<snip>

/Bruce

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-10 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-07 18:35 Luca Boccassi
2018-09-10  7:26 ` Chao Zhu
2018-09-10 10:50 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2018-09-10 11:33   ` Luca Boccassi
2018-09-10 11:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Luca Boccassi
2018-09-10 13:28   ` Bruce Richardson
2018-09-17 10:22     ` Thomas Monjalon

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