AMD NPS bios change is is not reflected onto NUMA domains detected by DPDK 21.11

[Antonio Di Bacco]

This was it !!!

Thanks.

Il giorno ven 22 apr 2022 alle ore 14:49 Tummala, Sivaprasad <
Sivaprasad.Tummala at amd.com> ha scritto:

> [AMD Official Use Only]
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> Hi Antonio,
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> You need to change the BIOS parameter “L3 Cache as NUMA Domain” to
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> With this, each L3 cache will not be reported as a NUMA domain (/NUMA
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> Thank you!
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> *From:* Antonio Di Bacco <a.dibacco.ks at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, April 22, 2022 10:22 AM
> *To:* users at dpdk.org
> *Subject:* AMD NPS bios change is is not reflected onto NUMA domains
> detected by DPDK 21.11
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> Using an  AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor (there are two on the server)
> for a total of 128 cores.
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> If I change the NPS (numa per socket) in BIOS and power cycle the system
> and the I launch a DPDK application, I always get this message:
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> EAL: Detected CPU lcores: 128
> EAL: Detected NUMA nodes: 16
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> NPS is able to change the number of NUMA but DPDK always detects 16 NUMA
> domains.
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> I tried with NPS1, NPS2, NPS4.
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