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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: "Juraj Linkeš" <juraj.linkes@pantheon.tech>
Cc: Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj@anongoth.pl>,
	David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"thomas@monjalon.net" <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	"david.marchand@redhat.com" <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	"Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com" <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>,
	"Ruifeng.Wang@arm.com" <Ruifeng.Wang@arm.com>,
	"ferruh.yigit@intel.com" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	"jerinjacobk@gmail.com" <jerinjacobk@gmail.com>,
	"jerinj@marvell.com" <jerinj@marvell.com>,
	"stephen@networkplumber.org" <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] build: optional NUMA and cpu counts detection
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 09:01:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YTm/TPiiZ5BjHHmY@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2244c98874b14069bacc178516bb8e74@pantheon.tech>

On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 07:20:27AM +0000, Juraj Linkeš wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2021 10:03 AM
> > To: Juraj Linkeš <juraj.linkes@pantheon.tech>
> > Cc: Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj@anongoth.pl>; David Christensen
> > <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; thomas@monjalon.net;
> > david.marchand@redhat.com; Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com;
> > Ruifeng.Wang@arm.com; ferruh.yigit@intel.com; jerinjacobk@gmail.com;
> > jerinj@marvell.com; stephen@networkplumber.org; dev@dpdk.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] build: optional NUMA and cpu counts detection
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 07:54:16AM +0000, Juraj Linkeš wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj@anongoth.pl>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2021 2:55 AM
> > > > To: Juraj Linkeš <juraj.linkes@pantheon.tech>
> > > > Cc: David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; thomas@monjalon.net;
> > > > david.marchand@redhat.com; bruce.richardson@intel.com;
> > > > Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com; Ruifeng.Wang@arm.com;
> > > > ferruh.yigit@intel.com; jerinjacobk@gmail.com; jerinj@marvell.com;
> > > > stephen@networkplumber.org; dev@dpdk.org
> > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] build: optional NUMA and cpu counts
> > > > detection
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > sorry for the late answer.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the answer anyway, better late than never.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I suppose you mean sysctl command, not systemctl.
> > > >
> > >
> > > That's right. What does lscpu say? Are the NUMA nodes non-contiguous like
> > this?:
> > > NUMA node0 CPU(s):   0-63
> > > NUMA node8 CPU(s):   64-127
> > > NUMA node252 CPU(s):
> > > NUMA node253 CPU(s):
> > > NUMA node254 CPU(s):
> > > NUMA node255 CPU(s):
> > >
> > > > On dual CPU systems, it returns 2. On single CPU ones, 1.
> > >
> > > I asked the previous question so that we know the actual numa node number
> > of the second CPU. If it's 8, then sysctl does some renumeration and we can't
> > use it.
> > >
> > > Bruce, maybe we should just parse lscpu output? That introduces a
> > dependency, but that may not be such a big deal as lscpu is pretty common.
> > >
> > Until we are sure that we need it, can we just keep things simple? Perhaps we
> > can use lscpu if present, and fallback to sysctl output if not.
> 
> Piotr says lscpu isn't available on ppc FreeBSD. I think this leaves us with two options:
> 1. either use sysctl with the risk that it may not return an accurate value
> 2. not support PPC for numa detection
> 
> What do you think?

I think point #2 is more not supporting FreeBSD on PPC for numa detection
rather than not supporting PPC generally, right? Personally, I am just in
favour of #1 for the sake of moving forward and giving us best support with
simplest code. If or when someone does hit this (FreeBSD+PPC) as a problem,
then we can work with them to find best solution for fixing it. Right now
we don't have anyone with the PPC+FreeBSD setup, so I'd rather ignore it
than implement more complicated solutions that we can't test "just in
case".

/Bruce

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-09  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-20 12:55 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/1] " Juraj Linkeš
2020-12-23 11:32 ` Juraj Linkeš
2021-03-31  9:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Juraj Linkeš
2021-03-31 19:07   ` David Christensen
2021-04-16 12:43     ` Juraj Linkeš
2021-04-19 10:18   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Juraj Linkeš
2021-04-28 19:33     ` David Christensen
2021-06-29 10:55     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Juraj Linkeš
2021-06-29 11:28       ` Bruce Richardson
2021-07-06  8:56         ` Juraj Linkeš
2021-07-06  9:08           ` Bruce Richardson
2021-07-06 18:10             ` David Christensen
2021-07-16 13:53               ` Juraj Linkeš
2021-07-16 14:24                 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-07-20 20:49                 ` David Christensen
2021-07-21 12:41                   ` Juraj Linkeš
2021-06-29 18:00       ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-07-21 13:04       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Juraj Linkeš
2021-08-02 12:44         ` Juraj Linkeš
2021-08-02 23:29           ` David Christensen
2021-08-03 10:21             ` Juraj Linkeš
2021-08-31  0:54               ` Piotr Kubaj
2021-08-31  7:54                 ` Juraj Linkeš
2021-08-31  8:02                   ` Bruce Richardson
2021-09-09  7:20                     ` Juraj Linkeš
2021-09-09  8:01                       ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2021-09-09  8:08                         ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-09-09  8:42                           ` Juraj Linkeš
2021-09-09 16:44                         ` David Christensen
2021-08-31 12:32                   ` Piotr Kubaj
2021-08-17 10:45         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] " Juraj Linkeš
2021-09-16  7:46           ` Thomas Monjalon

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