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From: David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Bruce Richardson" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	"Juraj Linkeš" <juraj.linkes@pantheon.tech>
Cc: Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj@anongoth.pl>,
	"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 09:44:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <def8f591-ff08-2c78-ab39-cf0facce65f0@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YTm/TPiiZ5BjHHmY@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com>


>> 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".

Fully agree here.  Can't expect a user app to completely resolve all 
limitations in the underlying OS.

Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-09 16:44 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
2021-09-09  8:08                         ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-09-09  8:42                           ` Juraj Linkeš
2021-09-09 16:44                         ` David Christensen [this message]
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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