[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] usertools: add huge page setup script

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 09:56:43AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This is an improved version of the setup of huge pages
> bases on earlier DPDK setup. Differences are:
>    * it autodetects NUMA vs non NUMA
>    * it allows setting different page sizes
>      recent kernels support multiple sizes.
>    * it accepts a parameter in bytes (not pages).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> ---
> This is lightly tested, it still needs testing on multiple architectures
> etc.
> 
>  usertools/hugepage-setup.sh | 169 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 169 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100755 usertools/hugepage-setup.sh
> 
> diff --git a/usertools/hugepage-setup.sh b/usertools/hugepage-setup.sh
> new file mode 100755
> index 000000000000..df132e2f8d64
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/usertools/hugepage-setup.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
> +#! /bin/bash

Is there a good reason to limit this to bash rather than general "sh"?

Also, if we ever see this script being expanded to cover more, would it be
more extensible in python rather than shell?