25/04/2017 12:19, Andriy Berestovskyy: > Hi, > > On 25.04.2017 10:48, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > Do you think it is really a good idea to keep and maintain this script > > in DPDK? It was intentionnally not exported in "make install". > > I think it is a bit out of scope, and I wonder which alternatives > > do we have? I know hwloc/lstopo, but there are probably others. > > hwloc does not work on my target, but you are right, there are a variety > of tools for that. For example, I prefer numactl (option -H) because it > also allows to do many useful things, like bind CPUs to one node and > memory allocations to another. > > At the moment the script is just like the lscpu, which is preinstalled > on Ubuntu and mentioned in the documentation alongside with the cpu_layout. > > We could try to make the script more useful, for example, show which NIC > is on which NUMA node. Still, it will be just a subset of functionality > of tools like hwloc...
Yes. The other idea would be to properly document existing tools and remove this one. Opinions?
