The number of memory channels is a truly obscure thing as a mandatory command line argument when its really just an optimization. Provide a reasonable default in mempool as suggested by Bruce Richardson and make the -n argument optional in EAL to make DPDK that little bit easier to use for a first-timer.
Panu Matilainen (2): mempool: use a better default for number of memory channels eal: make the -n argument optional lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 8 +------- lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 2.4.3