[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/11] moving away from coremask to corelist

Wiles, Keith keith.wiles at intel.com
Fri Feb 10 14:47:02 CET 2017


> On Feb 10, 2017, at 2:46 AM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Keith,
> 
> 2017-02-09 17:42, Keith Wiles:
>> The coremask option in DPDK is difficult to use and we should be
>> promoting the use of the corelist (-l) option. The patch series
>> adjusts the docs to use -l EAL option instead of the -c option.
>> 
>> The patch series doc change only and is not required to be done
>> in 17.02 release, but should be added to the 17.05 release.
>> The -c option will be kept and not removed for now unless in the
>> future we decide to deprecate the code.
>> 
>> v2 - Fix taskset back to using -c
>> 
>> Keith Wiles (11):
>>  doc/cryptodev: use corelist instead of coremask
>>  doc/faq: use corelist instead of coremask
>>  doc/freebsd: use corelist instead of coremask
>>  doc/howto: use corelist instead of coremask
>>  doc/linux: use corelist instead of coremask
>>  doc/nics: use corelist instead of coremask
>>  doc/prog_guide: use corelist instead of coremask
>>  doc/testpmd: use corelist instead of coremask
>>  doc/cryptoperf: use corelist instead of coremask
>>  doc/xen: use corelist instead of coremask
>>  doc/sample_app: use corelist instead of coremask
> 
> In case you make new revisions, I think you can squash every patches
> in a single one. They are all doing the same thing in different files.

I have been known to squash patches before, so did not want to do it again :-)

Will submit a single patch as v3.



Regards,
Keith



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