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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] eal: restrict cores auto detection
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 15:31:39 +0100
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2016-12-09 15:14, Bruce Richardson:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 07:19:41PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 2016-12-02 17:48, Jianfeng Tan:
> > > This patch uses pthread_getaffinity_np() to narrow down used
> > > cores when none of below options is specified:
> > >   * coremask (-c)
> > >   * corelist (-l)
> > >   * and coremap (--lcores)
> > > 
> > > The purpose of this patch is to leave out these core related options
> > > when DPDK applications are deployed under container env, so that
> > > users do not need decide the core related parameters when developing
> > > applications. Instead, when applications are deployed in containers,
> > > use cpu-set to constrain which cores can be used inside this container
> > > instance. And DPDK application inside containers just rely on this
> > > auto detect mechanism to start polling threads.
> > > 
> > > Note: previously, some users are using isolated CPUs, which could
> > > be excluded by default. Please add commands like taskset to use
> > > those cores.
> > > 
> > > Test example:
> > > $ taskset 0xc0000 ./examples/helloworld/build/helloworld -m 1024
> > 
> > Bruce, what do you think of this version?
> > It requires taskset only if -c, -l and --lcores are not used.
> > 
> I'm fine with that since it maintains backward compatibilty for those
> options.
> 
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

Applied with "s/specified/parsed/", thanks