[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/6] build: increase default of max lcores to 512

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 4:38 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 02:45:06PM +0100, David Hunt wrote:
> > Modern processors are coming with an ever increasing number of cores,
> > and 128 does not seem like a sensible max limit any more, especially
> > when you consider multi-socket systems with Hyper-Threading enabled.
> >
> > This patch increases max_lcores default from 128 to 512.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt at intel.com>

Why should we need this?

--lcores makes it possible to pin 128 lcores to any physical core on
your system.
And for applications that have their own thread management, they can
pin thread, then use rte_thread_register.

Do you have applications that require more than 128 lcores?


-- 
David Marchand