On 08/06/2017 13:14, Bruce Richardson wrote:
On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 02:21:58PM +0300, Ilya Maximets wrote:
Hi everyone,
I just want to clarify current status of these patches.
As I understand, moving to the new build system (for example,
meson+ninja as proposed[1] by Bruce) is a very long process.
But we have issues with imbalanced memory allocation now, and
IMHO it's better to fix them in a near future.
Latest version (v5) of balanced allocation patches adds linbuma
as general unconditional dependency which conflicts with the
current DPDK policies.
So, there are 2 option:
1. Return back config option RTE_LIBRTE_EAL_NUMA_AWARE_HUGEPAGES
from the first version of the patch and disable it by default.
2. Keep patch as it is now and make everyone install libnuma
for successful build.
I have no preferences about above options. I'm asking your opinions.
Bruce, Sergio, Thomas, what do you think?
[1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-June/067428.html
Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
I would be ok with having libnuma as a dependency, so I think I'd prefer
option 2 to 1, assuming libnuma is available in all major Linux distros.
/Bruce
+1 on option 2 (current patch and libnuma as DPDK dependency).
Sergio
