From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] usertools: add huge page setup script
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 10:18:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200904101845.4373a2ad@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200904092228.GB1627@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com>
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 10:22:28 +0100
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
> > +def set_pages(pages, hugepgsz):
> > + '''Sets the numberof huge pages to be reserved'''
> > + if is_numa():
> > + set_numa_pages(pages, hugepgsz)
> > + else:
> > + set_non_numa_pages(pages, hugepgsz)
> > +
>
> I'm not sure I agree with this behaviour for numa nodes. When a size is
> specified on a numa system we probably don't want to reserve that size on
> all nodes. I think one of two other options actually makes more sense:
> 1. Divide up the allocation equally between all nodes
> 2. Require the user to specify a numa node for the allocation.
>
> Option #2 is best, I think.
I was just reproducing what old script does for now.
How about a --node option to do a single node and by default divide by number of nodes?
> I think the trend in python is to use argparse rather than getopt, though
> personally I don't have strong feelings about the issue.
Used getopt because that is what devbind was using.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-04 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-18 12:39 [dpdk-dev] [RFC] usertools: Replace dpdk-setup with a python curses based script Sarosh Arif
2020-08-18 17:09 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-01 13:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-09-01 16:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] usertools: add huge page setup script Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-02 9:47 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-09-02 9:55 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-09-02 14:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-03 22:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-04 9:22 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-09-04 17:18 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2020-09-04 14:58 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-09-04 15:10 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-09-04 18:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-04 23:13 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-09-04 23:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-05 3:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-06 3:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-07 8:54 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-09-07 8:58 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-09-07 17:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-08 8:18 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-09-08 14:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-08 21:49 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-09-08 15:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] usertools: add a " Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-09 11:46 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-09-09 19:26 ` Ajit Khaparde
2020-09-09 18:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] " Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-14 15:31 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-10-20 18:01 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-11-22 21:39 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-09-24 4:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-11-22 21:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-11-23 0:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-11-24 17:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-11-24 21:37 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-11-25 9:16 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-08-28 12:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC] usertools: Replace dpdk-setup with a python curses based script Morten Brørup
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