Obtaining the correct value, especially from a running system, can
be anything from difficult to plain impossible. Since the value is
merely an optimization and does not affect functionality otherwise,
its pointless to force such a guess on users initially, such things
belong to performance tuning phase.
Signed-off-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com>
---
lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 10 ++--------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
index 1f459ac..28f10a2 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ eal_reset_internal_config(struct internal_config
*internal_cfg)
internal_cfg->memory = 0;
internal_cfg->force_nrank = 0;
- internal_cfg->force_nchannel = 0;
+ internal_cfg->force_nchannel = 1;
internal_cfg->hugefile_prefix = HUGEFILE_PREFIX_DEFAULT;
internal_cfg->hugepage_dir = NULL;
internal_cfg->force_sockets = 0;
@@ -834,12 +834,6 @@ eal_check_common_options(struct internal_config
*internal_cfg)
RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Invalid process type specified\n");
return -1;
}
- if (internal_cfg->process_type == RTE_PROC_PRIMARY &&
- internal_cfg->force_nchannel == 0) {
- RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Number of memory channels (-n) not "
- "specified\n");
- return -1;
- }
if (index(internal_cfg->hugefile_prefix, '%') != NULL) {
RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Invalid char, '%%', in --"OPT_FILE_PREFIX" "
"option\n");
@@ -869,7 +863,7 @@ eal_check_common_options(struct internal_config
*internal_cfg)
void
eal_common_usage(void)
{
- printf("-c COREMASK|-l CORELIST -n CHANNELS [options]\n\n"
+ printf("-c COREMASK|-l CORELIST [options]\n\n"
"EAL common options:\n"
" -c COREMASK Hexadecimal bitmask of cores to run on\n"
" -l CORELIST List of cores to run on\n"
--
2.4.3
