Re: [PATCH v8] enhance NUMA affinity heuristic

[David Marchand]

On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 11:03 AM Kaisen You <kaisenx....@intel.com> wrote:
>
> When a DPDK application is started on only one numa node, memory is
> allocated for only one socket. When interrupt threads use memory,
> memory may not be found on the socket where the interrupt thread
> is currently located, and memory has to be reallocated on the hugepage,
> this operation will lead to performance degradation.
>
> Fixes: 705356f0811f ("eal: simplify control thread creation")
> Fixes: 770d41bf3309 ("malloc: fix allocation with unknown socket ID")
> Cc: sta...@dpdk.org

Backporting this kind of change seems risky for a LTS.
Heads up for LTS maintainers.

Anatoly, are we sure we want it backported?


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David Marchand