[RFC 0/2] introduce LLC aware functions

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 03:13:14 +0000
"Varghese, Vipin" <Vipin.Varghese at amd.com> wrote:

> > Agreed. This one of those cases where the existing project hwloc which is part
> > of open-mpi is more complete and well supported. It supports multiple OS's
> > and can deal with more quirks.  
> 
> Thank you Stephen for the inputs, last year when checked hwloc for distros there were anomalies for NUMA and Physical socket Identification on AMD EPYC Soc.
> I will recheck the distros version of hwloc, if these work out fine I will re-work with hwloc libraries making it OS independent too.

DPDK doesn't exist to resolve problems with upstreaming hardware support
in other packages. If DPDK does supports something only because it is harder, slower, more painful
to deal with another project; then you create long term technical debt.