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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Juraj Linkeš" <juraj.linkes@pantheon.tech>
Cc: Dharmik Thakkar <Dharmik.Thakkar@arm.com>,
	Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk@gmail.com>,
	"thomas@monjalon.net" <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	dpdk-dev <dev@dpdk.org>, nd <nd@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] build: find max lcore programmatically
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 15:52:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200903155237.3e61310d@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b5e5196016604b9b95ca8109eb19425a@pantheon.tech>

On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 06:20:17 +0000
Juraj Linkeš <juraj.linkes@pantheon.tech> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Dharmik Thakkar
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 6:56 AM
> > To: Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk@gmail.com>
> > Cc: thomas@monjalon.net; dpdk-dev <dev@dpdk.org>; nd <nd@arm.com>
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] build: find max lcore programmatically
> > 
> > 
> >   
> > > On Aug 25, 2020, at 11:47 PM, Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 2:44 AM Dharmik Thakkar  
> > <dharmik.thakkar@arm.com> wrote:  
> > >>
> > >> For Arm, RTE_MAX_LCORE is hard-coded into the config. It leads to
> > >> incorrect RTE_MAX_LCORE when machines have same Implemener and part
> > >> number but different number of CPUs.
> > >> For x86, RTE_MAX_LCORE is always set to 128 (using the value set in
> > >> meson_options.txt)
> > >>
> > >> Use python script to find max lcore when using native build to
> > >> correctly set RTE_MAX_LCORE.  
> > >
> > > We may need to build on the native arm64 machine and use it on another
> > > arm64 machine(Just like x86).
> > > So I think, at least for default config(which will be used by
> > > distribution) to support max
> > > lcores as fixed. I am not sure this patch changes those aspects or
> > > not? Please check.  
> > 
> > This patch does *not* affect ‘default’ build type and cross-compilation.
> >   
> > >  
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Dharmik Thakkar <dharmik.thakkar@arm.com>
> > >> Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
> > >> ---
> > >> config/get_max_lcores.py | 13 +++++++++++++
> > >> config/meson.build       | 13 ++++++++++++-
> > >> 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100755
> > >> config/get_max_lcores.py
> > >>
> > >> diff --git a/config/get_max_lcores.py b/config/get_max_lcores.py new
> > >> file mode 100755 index 000000000000..ebf1c7efdadd
> > >> --- /dev/null
> > >> +++ b/config/get_max_lcores.py
> > >> @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
> > >> +#!/usr/bin/python3
> > >> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause # Copyright(c) 2020 Arm
> > >> +Limited
> > >> +
> > >> +import os
> > >> +
> > >> +max_lcores = []
> > >> +
> > >> +nCPU = os.cpu_count()
> > >> +
> > >> +max_lcores.append(str(nCPU & 0xFFF))             # Number of CPUs
> > >> +
> > >> +print(' '.join(max_lcores))
> > >> diff --git a/config/meson.build b/config/meson.build index
> > >> 6996e5cbeaa5..80c05bc15d2f 100644
> > >> --- a/config/meson.build
> > >> +++ b/config/meson.build
> > >> @@ -237,11 +237,22 @@ else # for 32-bit we need smaller reserved memory  
> > areas  
> > >>        dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MAX_MEM_MB', 2048) endif
> > >>
> > >> -
> > >> compile_time_cpuflags = []
> > >> subdir(arch_subdir)
> > >> dpdk_conf.set('RTE_COMPILE_TIME_CPUFLAGS',
> > >> ','.join(compile_time_cpuflags))
> > >>
> > >> +# set max lcores
> > >> +if machine != 'default' and not meson.is_cross_build()
> > >> +       # The script returns max lcores
> > >> +       params = files('get_max_lcores.py')
> > >> +       cmd_out = run_command(params)  
> 
> Have you considered running just a shell command, such as "nproc --all"?

Is this really a good idea?
For real distributions and NFV products, the build and runtime environment will usually be
different even if on same CPU architecture.

In many cases there maybe a huge build machine (128 CPU) or in a container (reported as single cpu)
even if not doing cross build.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-03 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-25 21:13 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] config/arm: avoid variable reuse Dharmik Thakkar
2020-08-25 21:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] build: find max lcore programmatically Dharmik Thakkar
2020-08-26  4:47   ` Jerin Jacob
2020-08-26  4:55     ` Dharmik Thakkar
2020-09-03  6:20       ` Juraj Linkeš
2020-09-03 22:52         ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2020-09-04  5:43           ` Dharmik Thakkar
2020-09-17  9:56             ` Juraj Linkeš
2020-09-18  5:47               ` Dharmik Thakkar
2020-10-13 14:31                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-10-13 14:58                   ` Juraj Linkeš
2020-10-13 15:14                     ` Dharmik Thakkar
2020-10-14  6:53                       ` Juraj Linkeš
2020-10-14 13:28                         ` Dharmik Thakkar
2020-09-04  5:26         ` Dharmik Thakkar
2020-09-17  9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] config/arm: avoid variable reuse Juraj Linkeš
2020-09-18  5:26   ` Dharmik Thakkar
2020-09-18  8:40     ` Juraj Linkeš

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