Please disregard the Community Lab DTS failure just reported on this patchseries. I need to reconfigure the testbed and rerun the test.
On Fri, May 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote: > Following discussion earlier on this thread on the previous RFCs and > patches submitted [1], this series is a slightly different take on > solving the same fundamental problem - making it easy to use CPU cores > with ids >= RTE_MAX_LCORE, without having massive amounts of code > complexity internally. As previously discussed[2] this patchset > implements proposal "2a" and does the following: > > * marks the old coremask parameter (-c) and service core mask (-s) as > deprecated, so they can be dropped in future. Everything should now be > done using core lists where possible. > * consolidates the, previously separate but similar, "-l" and "--lcores" > flags into just short and long versions of the same thing. This does > not affect the "--lcores" flag at all, but expands the scope of what > was possible with "-l". > * a new flag, with long/short versions, is added as "-L" to allow the > user to just specify a range or set of physical CPU core ids to be > used by the app, and have them automatically mapped internally to a > set of lcore ids starting at 0. This provides the "easy solution" to > the original problem stated above. > > For completeness, since it's in the same area, the previously separate > documentation patch, adding examples for the "--lcores" parameter, is > rolled into this series as patch 3. > > [1] https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=34911&state=* > [2] > https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/z_piblqit3eu6...@bricha3-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com/#t > > Bruce Richardson (4): > eal: deprecate old coremask-based EAL parameters > eal: merge corelist and core mapping options > doc: provide examples of using lcores EAL parameter > eal: add option for auto-mapping cpu ids to low lcore ids > > doc/guides/eventdevs/dlb2.rst | 6 +- > doc/guides/faq/faq.rst | 8 +- > doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_sample_apps.rst | 7 +- > doc/guides/linux_gsg/eal_args.include.rst | 61 ++++-- > .../prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst | 3 +- > doc/guides/prog_guide/meson_ut.rst | 2 +- > doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.rst | 2 +- > doc/guides/prog_guide/service_cores.rst | 8 +- > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 10 + > doc/guides/sample_app_ug/ip_frag.rst | 7 +- > doc/guides/sample_app_ug/ip_reassembly.rst | 7 +- > doc/guides/sample_app_ug/multi_process.rst | 14 +- > doc/guides/sample_app_ug/qos_scheduler.rst | 2 +- > doc/guides/sample_app_ug/test_pipeline.rst | 2 +- > doc/guides/tools/testbbdev.rst | 2 +- > lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 202 +++++++----------- > lib/eal/common/eal_options.h | 6 +- > lib/eal/windows/include/sched.h | 1 + > 18 files changed, 168 insertions(+), 182 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.45.2 > >
