From: Dharmik Thakkar <Dharmik.Thakkar@arm.com>
To: Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk@gmail.com>
Cc: "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: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 04:55:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FD64DFB5-2B59-4FB4-9AF4-5F5B3073D5E9@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALBAE1O0CwSDMEJ59CXvP48EzpO7hz56DY-oakQxJQM75muy6A@mail.gmail.com>
> 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)
>> + if cmd_out.returncode() == 0
>> + cmd_lcore = cmd_out.stdout().to_lower().strip().split(' ')
>> + endif
>> + max_lcore = cmd_lcore[0].to_int()
>> + dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MAX_LCORE', max_lcore)
>> +endif
>> +
>> # set the install path for the drivers
>> dpdk_conf.set_quoted('RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH', eal_pmd_path)
>>
>> --
>> 2.17.1
>>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-26 4:55 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 [this message]
2020-09-03 6:20 ` Juraj Linkeš
2020-09-03 22:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
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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