From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Cc: Oscar Zhao <oz@quacker.org>, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Feature Discussion: CPU topology detection on FreeBSD
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 13:45:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210129134511.GF929@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b287cd6-7ea0-96e9-5a48-89e99d84b1f9@intel.com>
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 12:52:50PM +0000, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
> On 29-Jan-21 10:05 AM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 04:07:07AM +0000, Oscar Zhao wrote:
> > > Hello dpdk devs,
> > >
> > > I would like to discuss the feasibility of implementing CPU topology detection on FreeBSD. Currently both eal_cpu_core_id() and eal_cpu_socket_id() in rte_eal library always return 0 on FreeBSD, making NUMA-aware development impossible without resorting to external libraries or system APIs.
> > >
> > > The CPU topology information is available via sysct kern.sched.topology_spec. The only issue is that the return value is an XML formatted object (see https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/number-of-cpus-and-cores.41299/). (https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/number-of-cpus-and-cores.41299/) I'm not sure how feasible it is to parse XML inside DPDK.
> > >
> > > On a side note, obtaining the physical NUMA node id of a core is easy - sysctl dev.cpu.[cpu#].%domain returns the corresponding node id but I have yet found a straightforward way to detect hyperthreads besides the XML thing.
> > >
> > > Oscar
> >
> > Even adding in the numa node information would be a welcome start.
> >
>
> There's little value in it though, because as far as i'm aware we can't
> allocate memory on specific NUMA nodes in FreeBSD.
>
That is because the NUMA support in FreeBSD was not in place when we first
did the DPDK port. However, I still see no reason not to start adding it
now, even if it is only for information purposes at this point.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-29 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-28 4:07 Oscar Zhao
2021-01-29 10:05 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-01-29 12:52 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-01-29 13:45 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2021-02-10 16:01 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-01-29 22:24 ` Oscar Zhao
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