[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/2] eal: add additional info if core mask too long

[David Marchand]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 3:33 PM David Hunt <david.hunt at intel.com> wrote:
>
> If the user requests to use an lcore above 128 using -c,
> the eal will exit with "EAL: invalid coremask syntax" and
> very little else useful information.
>
> This patch adds some extra information suggesting to use --lcores
> so that physical cores above RTE_MAX_LCORE (default 128) can be
> used. This is achieved by using the --lcores option by mapping
> the logical cores in the application to physical cores.
>
> For example, if "-c 0x300000000000000000000000000000000" is
> used, we see the following additional output on the command line:
>
> EAL: lcore 128 >= RTE_MAX_LCORE (128)
> EAL: lcore 129 >= RTE_MAX_LCORE (128)
> EAL: to use high physical core ids , please use --lcores to
> map them to lcore ids below RTE_MAX_LCORE,
> EAL:     e.g. --lcores 0 at 128,1 at 129
>
> Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

Series applied, thanks.


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David Marchand