From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>,
"Liang, Cunming" <cunming.liang@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/linux: fix negative value for undetermined numa_node
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 19:19:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1673557.cjtS5G2rXq@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150803050441.GA8325@mhcomputing.net>
2015-08-02 22:04, Matthew Hall:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 09:46:54AM +0800, Liang, Cunming wrote:
> > According to the API definition, if the socket could not be determined, a
> > default of zero will take.
> > The '-1' is returned when the port_id value is out of range.
>
> Yes, but when I asked the exact same question and was told the documentation
> was wrong not the -1 return value.
It was an error.
The correct API, as defined, is to return 0 when there is no NUMA.
This patch now reverts this one:
http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=a4ff75496a18
Thanks Matthew for helping to clarify it.
> Sure, if nobody objects like the last time I asked. But this will change the
> user behavior as I am looking for the -1 now.
You're right. But this fix follows the defined API, so it's rather an API fix
than an API break.
Applied, thanks
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-03 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-08 6:33 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] app/test: fix pmd_perf issue in no NUMA case Cunming Liang
2015-06-08 7:01 ` Jayakumar, Muthurajan
2015-06-22 21:01 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-06-23 1:45 ` Liang, Cunming
2015-07-31 1:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/linux: fix negative value for undetermined numa_node Cunming Liang
2015-08-01 3:56 ` Matthew Hall
2015-08-03 1:46 ` Liang, Cunming
2015-08-03 5:04 ` Matthew Hall
2015-08-03 17:19 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
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