Hi, 21/01/2020 01:24, Thomas Monjalon: > 02/12/2019 16:35, David Marchand: > > We are currently stuck with no option but recompile a DPDK if the system > > has more cores than RTE_MAX_LCORE. > > A bit of a pity when you get a system with more than 200+ cores and your > > testpmd has been built and packaged with RTE_MAX_LCORE == 128. > > > > The --lcores does not need to care about the underlying cores, remove > > this limitation. > > > David Marchand (4): > > eal/windows: fix cpuset macro name > > eal: do not cache lcore detection state > > eal: display all detected cores at startup > > eal: remove limitation on cpuset with --lcores > > The patches look good but it is very hard to review parsing code (last patch). > We will better experience corner cases after merging. > > Applied for -rc1, thanks
This patch was merged in 20.02. We don't have any feedback about issues so it's probably working fine. It is solving a problem for running DPDK on machines having a lot of cores. Now the difficult question: is it a new feature or a fix? Should we backport this patchset?