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From: "Van Haaren, Harry" <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
To: "Eads, Gage" <gage.eads@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] example: add new service cores sample application
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:02:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E923DB57A917B54B9182A2E928D00FA650FC796E@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9184057F7FC11744A2107296B6B8EB1E13FF25E2@fmsmsx101.amr.corp.intel.com>

> From: Eads, Gage 
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2017 5:32 PM
> To: Van Haaren, Harry <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] example: add new service cores sample application
> 
> Neat example. Looks good overall, I just have a few questions.
> 
> > +#define PROFILE_SERVICE_PER_CORE 8
> 
> Any reason not to use 5 here? That would remove a few zeroes from the profiles[] initializers.

Nope - good suggestion, Fixed in v2.


> > +static int
> > +apply_profile(int profile_id)
> > +{
> > +          uint32_t i;
> > +          uint32_t s;
> > +          int ret;
> > +          struct profile *p = &profiles[profile_id];
> > +          const uint8_t core_off = 1;
> > +
> > +          for (i = 0; i < p->num_cores; i++) {
> > +                         ret = rte_service_lcore_add(i + core_off);
> > +                         if (ret && ret != -EALREADY)
> > +                                        printf("core %d added ret %d\n", i + core_off, ret);
> 
> I'm wondering if this and the other printfs in this function should be rte_panics? These seem like fatal errors.

They're not fatal, they shouldn't (and don't) occur in the sample app. The error handling is there to be a good example - panic() doesn't seem a good suggestion to handle and error.. I'll leave as is.

> 
> > +
> > +                         ret = rte_service_lcore_start(i + core_off);
> > +                         if (ret && ret != -EALREADY)
> > +                                        printf("core %d start ret %d\n", i + core_off, ret);
> > +
> > +                         for (s = 0; s < NUM_SERVICES; s++) {
> > +                                        if (rte_service_map_lcore_set(s, i + core_off,
> > +                                                                      p->cores[i].mapped_services[s]))
> > +                                                       rte_panic("failed to map lcore to 1\n");
> 
> What does '1' refer to here? Perhaps it should be: rte_panic("failed to map lcore %d to %s\n", i + core_off, services[s].name);

Good catch, fixed in v2.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-19 10:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-25 16:32 Eads, Gage
2017-10-19 10:02 ` Van Haaren, Harry [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-09-25 13:23 Harry van Haaren
2017-10-13 22:20 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-10-13 22:24   ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-10-19 10:04     ` Van Haaren, Harry

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