From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: "Mcnamara, John" <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Provide reasonable default to -n
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:50:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1607217.6S7yYligGL@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B27915DBBA3421428155699D51E4CFE2023833CF@IRSMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com>
2015-10-15 13:12, Mcnamara, John:
> From: Panu Matilainen [mailto:pmatilai@redhat.com]
> > Sure. I was planning on going through the docs and updating them
> > (separately) if the change is otherwise accepted, I suspect there are more
> > than those two places needing changes.
Actually the docs about command line are redundant and outdated.
We should try to keep them only in the startup section of the GSG (Linux and BSD).
> I counted ~ 100 places in the docs where -n is used. I don't know if they all
> have to be removed. The 2 examples I gave were the only ones that I found,
> in a quick scan, that explicitly say -n is required. The rest are in the
> "mostly harmless" category but if you wanted to remove the majority of the
> references then that is probably okay.
I think we should remove most of them to keep the doc simple and maintainable.
These patches will be applied even if the doc is not updated
because a doc rework is needed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-26 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-14 10:22 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: default to one memory channel if not specified Panu Matilainen
2015-10-14 11:45 ` David Marchand
2015-10-14 12:04 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-10-14 13:05 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-10-15 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Provide reasonable default to -n Panu Matilainen
2015-10-15 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] mempool: use a better default for number of memory channels Panu Matilainen
2015-10-15 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eal: make the -n argument optional Panu Matilainen
2015-10-15 12:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Provide reasonable default to -n David Marchand
2015-10-26 16:51 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-15 12:10 ` Mcnamara, John
2015-10-15 12:36 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-10-15 13:12 ` Mcnamara, John
2015-10-26 16:50 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2015-10-26 16:56 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-27 7:19 ` Panu Matilainen
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1607217.6S7yYligGL@xps13 \
--to=thomas.monjalon@6wind.com \
--cc=dev@dpdk.org \
--cc=john.mcnamara@intel.com \
--cc=pmatilai@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).