[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal/service: improve error checking of coremasks

[Thomas Monjalon]

Hi Harry,

What is the status of this patch?


21/05/2018 11:41, Varghese, Vipin:
> Hi Harry,
> 
> This look ok to me, except for one warning rewrite else its ACK from my end.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Van Haaren, Harry
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 9:26 PM
> > To: dev at dpdk.org
> > Cc: Van Haaren, Harry <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>; thomas at monjalon.net;
> > Varghese, Vipin <vipin.varghese at intel.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH v2] eal/service: improve error checking of coremasks
> > 
> > This commit improves the error checking performed on the core masks (or lists)
> > of the service cores, in particular with respect to the data-plane (RTE) cores of
> > DPDK.
> > 
> > With this commit, invalid configurations are detected at runtime, and warning
> > messages are printed to inform the user.
> > 
> > For example specifying the coremask as 0xf, and the service coremask as 0xff00
> > is invalid as not all service-cores are contained within the coremask. A warning is
> > now printed to inform the user.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Vipin Varghese <vipin.varghese at intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > v2, thanks for review:
> > - Consistency in message endings - vs . (Thomas)
> > - Wrap lines as they're very long otherwise (Thomas)
> > 
> > Cc: thomas at monjalon.net
> > Cc: vipin.varghese at intel.com
> > 
> > @Thomas, please consider this patch for RC4, it adds checks and prints
> > warnings, better usability, no functional changes.
> > ---
> >  lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 43
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> > b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> > index ecebb29..9f3a484 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> > +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> > @@ -315,6 +315,7 @@ eal_parse_service_coremask(const char *coremask)
> >  	unsigned int count = 0;
> >  	char c;
> >  	int val;
> > +	uint32_t taken_lcore_count = 0;
> > 
> >  	if (coremask == NULL)
> >  		return -1;
> > @@ -358,6 +359,10 @@ eal_parse_service_coremask(const char *coremask)
> >  						"lcore %u unavailable\n", idx);
> >  					return -1;
> >  				}
> > +
> > +				if (cfg->lcore_role[idx] == ROLE_RTE)
> > +					taken_lcore_count++;
> > +
> >  				lcore_config[idx].core_role = ROLE_SERVICE;
> >  				count++;
> >  			}
> > @@ -374,11 +379,28 @@ eal_parse_service_coremask(const char *coremask)
> >  	if (count == 0)
> >  		return -1;
> > 
> > +	if (core_parsed && taken_lcore_count != count) {
> > +		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL,
> > +			"Warning: not all service cores were in the coremask. "
> > +			"Please ensure -c or -l includes service cores\n");
> 
> Current execution will throw warning message as 'Warning: not all service cores were in the coremask. Please ensure -c or -l includes service cores'. 
> 
> 1) Should we re-write this with ' RTE_LOG(WARN, EAL,' and removing 'Warning: '
> 2) Warning message as "service cores not in data plane core mask ".
> 3) If we share information "Please ensure -c or -l includes service cores\n" is not it expected to rte_panic? So should we remove this line?
> 
> > +	}
> > +
> >  	cfg->service_lcore_count = count;
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> > 
> >  static int
> > +eal_service_cores_parsed(void)
> > +{
> > +	int idx;
> > +	for (idx = 0; idx < RTE_MAX_LCORE; idx++) {
> > +		if (lcore_config[idx].core_role == ROLE_SERVICE)
> > +			return 1;
> > +	}
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static int
> >  eal_parse_coremask(const char *coremask)  {
> >  	struct rte_config *cfg = rte_eal_get_configuration(); @@ -387,6
> > +409,11 @@ eal_parse_coremask(const char *coremask)
> >  	char c;
> >  	int val;
> > 
> > +	if (eal_service_cores_parsed())
> > +		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL,
> > +			"Warning: Service cores parsed before dataplane cores.
> > "
> > +			"Please ensure -c is before -s or -S.\n");
> > +
> >  	if (coremask == NULL)
> >  		return -1;
> >  	/* Remove all blank characters ahead and after .
> > @@ -418,6 +445,7 @@ eal_parse_coremask(const char *coremask)
> >  					        "unavailable\n", idx);
> >  					return -1;
> >  				}
> > +
> >  				cfg->lcore_role[idx] = ROLE_RTE;
> >  				lcore_config[idx].core_index = count;
> >  				count++;
> > @@ -449,6 +477,7 @@ eal_parse_service_corelist(const char *corelist)
> >  	unsigned count = 0;
> >  	char *end = NULL;
> >  	int min, max;
> > +	uint32_t taken_lcore_count = 0;
> > 
> >  	if (corelist == NULL)
> >  		return -1;
> > @@ -490,6 +519,9 @@ eal_parse_service_corelist(const char *corelist)
> >  							idx);
> >  						return -1;
> >  					}
> > +					if (cfg->lcore_role[idx] == ROLE_RTE)
> > +						taken_lcore_count++;
> > +
> >  					lcore_config[idx].core_role =
> >  							ROLE_SERVICE;
> >  					count++;
> > @@ -504,6 +536,12 @@ eal_parse_service_corelist(const char *corelist)
> >  	if (count == 0)
> >  		return -1;
> > 
> > +	if (core_parsed && taken_lcore_count != count) {
> > +		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL,
> > +			"Warning: not all service cores were in the coremask. "
> > +			"Please ensure -c or -l includes service cores\n");
> > +	}
> > +
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> > 
> > @@ -516,6 +554,11 @@ eal_parse_corelist(const char *corelist)
> >  	char *end = NULL;
> >  	int min, max;
> > 
> > +	if (eal_service_cores_parsed())
> > +		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL,
> > +			"Warning: Service cores parsed before dataplane cores.
> > "
> > +			"Please ensure -l is before -s or -S.\n");
> > +
> >  	if (corelist == NULL)
> >  		return -1;
> > 
> > --
> > 2.7.4
>