[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/2] Balanced allocation of hugepages

[Bruce Richardson]

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