Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] app/testpmd: limit number of forwarding cores

["Nélio Laranjeiro" <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 11:35:19PM +0100, Pablo de Lara wrote:
> Number of forwarding cores must be equal or less than
> number of forwarding streams, otherwise two cores
> would try to use a same queue on a port, which is not allowed.
> 
> Fixes: f2bb7ae1d204 ("app/testpmd: handle all Rx queues in RSS setup")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
> ---
>  app/test-pmd/config.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/app/test-pmd/config.c b/app/test-pmd/config.c
> index 9ccabf9..de60284 100644
> --- a/app/test-pmd/config.c
> +++ b/app/test-pmd/config.c
> @@ -1236,6 +1236,10 @@ rss_fwd_config_setup(void)
>  	cur_fwd_config.nb_fwd_streams =
>  		(streamid_t) (nb_q * cur_fwd_config.nb_fwd_ports);
>  
> +	if (cur_fwd_config.nb_fwd_streams < cur_fwd_config.nb_fwd_lcores)
> +		cur_fwd_config.nb_fwd_lcores =
> +			(lcoreid_t)cur_fwd_config.nb_fwd_streams;
> +
>  	/* reinitialize forwarding streams */
>  	init_fwd_streams();
>  
> -- 
> 2.5.5

Tested with:
 - coremask allowing to use 12 cores for 4 txqs and 4 rxqs.
 - coremask allowing to use 12 cores for 6 txqs and 6 rxqs.
 - coremask allowing to use 12 cores for 8 txqs and 8 rxqs.

It fixes the issue.

Tested-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com> 

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Nélio Laranjeiro
6WIND