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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Aaron Campbell <aaron@arbor.net>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/linuxapp: Add parameter to specify master lcore id
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 20:00:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3986981.sR7Aq8MzkS@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <582DA5F6-0A84-4FDD-8DC6-D8E5C6B1652A@arbor.net>

2014-11-03 13:02, Aaron Campbell:
> > On Jul 8, 2014, at 5:28 AM, Simon Kuenzer <simon.kuenzer@neclab.eu> wrote:
> > 
> > +			else if (!strcmp(lgopts[option_index].name, OPT_MASTER_LCORE)) {
> > +				if (!coremask_ok) {
> > +					RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "please specify the master "
> > +							"lcore id after specifying "
> > +							"the coremask\n");
> > +					eal_usage(prgname);
> > +					return -1;
> > +				}
> 
> 
> Hi Simon,
> 
> I think that forcing a particular command line order is not that clean.
> It might be better to remove the cfg->master_lcore setting from
> eal_parse_coremask(), and defer the selection of the master lcore until
> all of the command-line options have been parsed.  If —master-lcore was
> specified, save the value and use that, otherwise
> rte_get_next_lcore(-1, 0, 0) can return the first bit set in the coremask.

It's not sufficient: eal_parse_master_lcore() requires cfg->lcore_role
to be set. There is a real dependency between these 2 options.
I'm going to submit a v2. Feel free to improve it with another patch.

-- 
Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-04 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-08  8:28 Simon Kuenzer
2014-07-08  9:42 ` Simon Kuenzer
2014-07-21 16:21   ` Simon Kuenzer
2014-07-22 23:40     ` Hiroshi Shimamoto
2014-07-23  7:50       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-23  8:53         ` Hiroshi Shimamoto
2014-07-23  9:04           ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-23 12:05             ` Simon Kuenzer
2014-08-04  2:48             ` Hiroshi Shimamoto
2014-07-23 12:10           ` Simon Kuenzer
2014-11-03 17:02             ` Aaron Campbell
2014-11-03 22:29               ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-23  8:03       ` Gray, Mark D
2014-11-03 17:02 ` Aaron Campbell
2014-11-04 19:00   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2014-11-05 15:34     ` Aaron Campbell
2014-11-04 21:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal: add option --master-lcore Thomas Monjalon
2014-11-05 11:54   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2014-11-05 16:52     ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-11-05 15:34   ` Aaron Campbell
2014-11-05 23:43   ` Simon Kuenzer

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