[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/2] mem: balanced allocation of hugepages

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:25:51PM +0300, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> On 21.06.2017 11:58, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 10:51:58AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >> 21/06/2017 10:04, Ilya Maximets:
> >>> +CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_EAL_NUMA_AWARE_HUGEPAGES=n
> >>
> >> We can stop inserting LIBRTE in our config options.
> >> CONFIG_RTE_EAL_ is long enough :)
> >>
> > Consistency. While I agree it's unneeded should have it in all or none,
> > and unless we change a bunch of existing ones, I think it means we have
> > it in all.
> 
> Hmm. There are few options named CONFIG_RTE_EAL_* and CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_EAL_*.
> Also there is one strange CONFIG_RTE_LIBEAL_(USE_HPET).
> 
> Maybe we can prepare the patch to unify all that options later?
> Or should I rename CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_EAL_NUMA_AWARE_HUGEPAGES to
> CONFIG_RTE_EAL_NUMA_AWARE_HUGEPAGES in this series?
Sure, if it's already insonsistent for EAL, then use the shorter name.
We can fix up the others later. These options may move or disappear if
we look to move to a different build system e.g. [1], so that may be a good
opportunity to adjust some names.

/Bruce

[1] http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/25104/