On Thu, 7 Dec 2023 16:18:10 +0000 Euan Bourke <euan.bou...@intel.com> wrote:
> A recent thread on the mailing list[1] discussed corelist and coremask > parsing and the idea of a new library dedicated to command line parsing > was mentioned[2]. This patchset adds the library, along with the new > APIs, and edits the existing EAL, DLB2 driver and some example > application functions to use these APIs, rather than each implementing > their own copies. > > The new APIs work similar to the existing functions in EAL, however > instead of filling a core array like this: > [1, -1, -1, 2, 3] (a non -1 refers to an 'active core' at that index) > It fills it like this: > [0, 3, 4] (with the value at each index being an 'active core'). > > The new APIs will also return the number of cores contained in the > passed corelist/coremask, so in the above example, 3 would be returned. > > New in the v3, is a heuristic parser which searches for key markers in > the core string, returning a enum value based off this search to > indicate if a parameter is likely a coremask or a corelist. This > heuristic function is also wrapped in a parser function allowing > apps to handle both coremasks and corelists simultaneously. > > [1] https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2023-November/280957.html > [2] https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2023-November/280966.html > To avoid confusion with the other work to handle better args in DPDK, maybe this should be call coreparse library?
