On Thu, 2019-01-31 at 09:32 +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 09:18:58PM -0500, Chas Williams wrote:
> > Allow users and packagers to override the default RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS.
> > This adds a new meson option, max_ethports which defaults to the
> > current value.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <3ch...@gmail.com>
>
> Agree with the idea. Just one small comment below re alphabetical
> order.
>
> Otherwise:
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>
>
> > ---
> > config/meson.build | 1 +
> > config/rte_config.h | 1 -
> > meson_options.txt | 2 ++
> > 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/config/meson.build b/config/meson.build
> > index db32499b3..e59507065 100644
> > --- a/config/meson.build
> > +++ b/config/meson.build
> > @@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ endforeach
> > # set other values pulled from the build options
> > dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MAX_LCORE', get_option('max_lcores'))
> > dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MAX_NUMA_NODES', get_option('max_numa_nodes'))
> > +dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS', get_option('max_ethports'))
> > dpdk_conf.set('RTE_LIBEAL_USE_HPET', get_option('use_hpet'))
> > dpdk_conf.set('RTE_EAL_ALLOW_INV_SOCKET_ID',
> > get_option('allow_invalid_socket_id'))
> > # values which have defaults which may be overridden
> > diff --git a/config/rte_config.h b/config/rte_config.h
> > index d3732e953..7606f5d7b 100644
> > --- a/config/rte_config.h
> > +++ b/config/rte_config.h
> > @@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
> > #define RTE_PKTMBUF_HEADROOM 128
> >
> > /* ether defines */
> > -#define RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS 32
> > #define RTE_MAX_QUEUES_PER_PORT 1024
> > #define RTE_ETHDEV_QUEUE_STAT_CNTRS 16
> > #define RTE_ETHDEV_RXTX_CALLBACKS 1
> > diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
> > index 574054597..e54eedc66 100644
> > --- a/meson_options.txt
> > +++ b/meson_options.txt
> > @@ -28,3 +28,5 @@ option('use_hpet', type: 'boolean', value: false,
> > description: 'use HPET timer in EAL')
> > option('tests', type: 'boolean', value: true,
> > description: 'build unit tests')
> > +option('max_ethports', type: 'string', value: '32',
> > + description: 'maximum number of Ethernet devices in EAL')
> > --
>
> We are trying to keep the options in alphabetical order, so this
> setting
> should be just before "max_lcores" rather than at the end.
>
> Interestingly, I see that since 0.45 there is now the option of an
> "integer" option type. We should probably switch to use that once we
> bump
> our minimum meson version. [Luca, perhaps another change for your
> set?]
> Ref: http://mesonbuild.com/Build-options.html#integers
Sounds good, I've added this change in v6 of the series
--
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
