13/02/2023 12:05, Bruce Richardson: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:53:19AM +0200, Ophir Munk wrote: > > In current DPDK the RTE_MAX_MEMZONE definition is unconditionally hard > > coded as 2560. For applications requiring different values of this > > parameter – it is more convenient to set its value as part of the meson > > command line rather than changing the dpdk source code per application. > > An example would be of an application that uses the DPDK mempool library > > which is based on DPDK memzone library. The application may need to > > create a number of steering tables, each of which will require its own > > mempool allocation. > > This commit adds a meson optional parameter named max_memzones. If not > > specified - it is set by default to 2560. The hard coded definition of > > RTE_MAX_MEMZONE is removed. During meson build time the RTE_MAX_MEMZONE > > can be optionally defined as the value of max_memzones parameter. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ophir Munk <ophi...@nvidia.com> > > --- > > RFC: > > https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230130092302.376145-1-ophi...@nvidia.com/ > > > > config/meson.build | 1 + > > config/rte_config.h | 1 - > > meson_options.txt | 2 ++ > > 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>
Are we going to move all compilation-defined settings to meson_options.txt? The direction discussed in recent years was to configure things at runtime, and stop adding compilation-time settings. In this case, it is quite easy to add a new function void rte_memzone_set_max(int max) to be called before rte_eal_init(). If not called, the historical default is used.