[RFC PATCH 10/44] eal: record details of all cpus in platform info

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Wed Apr 29 18:58:02 CEST 2026


Populate the platform info structure with details of all the cores on
the system.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
---
 lib/eal/common/eal_common_lcore.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 lib/eal/common/eal_internal_cfg.h | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 lib/eal/common/eal_private.h      |  8 ++++++++
 lib/eal/freebsd/eal_lcore.c       | 16 +++++++++++-----
 lib/eal/linux/eal_lcore.c         | 13 +++++++++++++
 lib/eal/windows/eal_lcore.c       |  6 ++++++
 6 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_lcore.c b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_lcore.c
index 39411f9370..d8cc5e1a91 100644
--- a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_lcore.c
+++ b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_lcore.c
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ rte_eal_cpu_init(void)
 {
 	/* pointer to global configuration */
 	struct rte_config *config = rte_eal_get_configuration();
+	struct eal_platform_info *platform_info = eal_get_platform_info();
 	unsigned lcore_id;
 	unsigned count = 0;
 	unsigned int socket_id, prev_socket_id;
@@ -161,6 +162,24 @@ rte_eal_cpu_init(void)
 	int lcore_to_socket_id[RTE_MAX_LCORE] = {0};
 #endif
 
+	/* allocate cpu_info for all CPUs visible to the OS */
+	platform_info->cpu_count = eal_cpu_max();
+	platform_info->cpu_info = calloc(platform_info->cpu_count,
+			sizeof(*platform_info->cpu_info));
+	if (platform_info->cpu_info == NULL) {
+		EAL_LOG(ERR, "Cannot allocate cpu_info array");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	/* populate cpu_info with hardware topology for all detected CPUs */
+	for (size_t cpu_id = 0; cpu_id < platform_info->cpu_count; cpu_id++) {
+		if (eal_cpu_detected(cpu_id) == 0)
+			continue;
+		platform_info->cpu_info[cpu_id].detected = true;
+		platform_info->cpu_info[cpu_id].numa_id = eal_cpu_socket_id(cpu_id);
+		platform_info->cpu_info[cpu_id].core_id = eal_cpu_core_id(cpu_id);
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Parse the maximum set of logical cores, detect the subset of running
 	 * ones and enable them by default.
diff --git a/lib/eal/common/eal_internal_cfg.h b/lib/eal/common/eal_internal_cfg.h
index 9a898e676e..8ed7171bdc 100644
--- a/lib/eal/common/eal_internal_cfg.h
+++ b/lib/eal/common/eal_internal_cfg.h
@@ -88,10 +88,22 @@ struct eal_user_cfg {
 };
 
 /**
- * Discovered information about cores, memory, etc. on the system.
- * Immutable after initialization, so no need for atomic types or locks.
+ * Hardware facts about a single physical CPU, populated during CPU discovery.
+ * Indexed by physical CPU ID (not DPDK lcore ID).
+ */
+struct eal_cpu_info {
+	bool detected;         /**< true if this CPU ID is valid and visible to the OS */
+	unsigned int numa_id;  /**< NUMA node this CPU belongs to */
+	unsigned int core_id;  /**< physical core number on its NUMA node */
+};
+
+/**
+ * Discovered information about the system hardware.
+ * Immutable after discovery.
  */
 struct eal_platform_info {
+	size_t cpu_count;                /**< number of entries in cpu_info[] */
+	struct eal_cpu_info *cpu_info;   /**< per-physical-CPU hardware facts */
 	uint8_t num_hugepage_sizes;      /**< how many sizes on this system */
 	struct hugepage_info hugepage_info[MAX_HUGEPAGE_SIZES];
 };
diff --git a/lib/eal/common/eal_private.h b/lib/eal/common/eal_private.h
index d9807fb2fb..00a73a9d61 100644
--- a/lib/eal/common/eal_private.h
+++ b/lib/eal/common/eal_private.h
@@ -388,6 +388,14 @@ unsigned eal_cpu_core_id(unsigned lcore_id);
  */
 int eal_cpu_detected(unsigned lcore_id);
 
+/**
+ * Get the number of CPU IDs to allocate for platform CPU info.
+ * Returns max_cpu_id + 1: all valid CPU IDs are in [0, eal_cpu_max()).
+ *
+ * This function is private to the EAL.
+ */
+size_t eal_cpu_max(void);
+
 /**
  * Set TSC frequency from precise value or estimation
  *
diff --git a/lib/eal/freebsd/eal_lcore.c b/lib/eal/freebsd/eal_lcore.c
index 1d3d1b67b9..c20d25358b 100644
--- a/lib/eal/freebsd/eal_lcore.c
+++ b/lib/eal/freebsd/eal_lcore.c
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
  * Copyright(c) 2010-2014 Intel Corporation
  */
 
+#include <sched.h>
+#include <errno.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
+#include <string.h>
 #include <sys/sysctl.h>
 
 #include <rte_log.h>
@@ -21,18 +24,21 @@ eal_cpu_core_id(__rte_unused unsigned lcore_id)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int
-eal_get_ncpus(void)
+size_t
+eal_cpu_max(void)
 {
 	static int ncpu = -1;
 	int mib[2] = {CTL_HW, HW_NCPU};
 	size_t len = sizeof(ncpu);
 
 	if (ncpu < 0) {
-		sysctl(mib, 2, &ncpu, &len, NULL, 0);
+		if (sysctl(mib, 2, &ncpu, &len, NULL, 0) != 0) {
+			EAL_LOG(ERR, "sysctl failed to get number of CPUs: %s", strerror(errno));
+			return CPU_SETSIZE;  /* fallback to CPU_SETSIZE */
+		}
 		EAL_LOG(INFO, "Sysctl reports %d cpus", ncpu);
 	}
-	return ncpu;
+	return (size_t)ncpu;
 }
 
 unsigned
@@ -47,6 +53,6 @@ eal_cpu_socket_id(__rte_unused unsigned cpu_id)
 int
 eal_cpu_detected(unsigned lcore_id)
 {
-	const unsigned ncpus = eal_get_ncpus();
+	const unsigned ncpus = eal_cpu_max();
 	return lcore_id < ncpus;
 }
diff --git a/lib/eal/linux/eal_lcore.c b/lib/eal/linux/eal_lcore.c
index 29b36dd610..6a806336bd 100644
--- a/lib/eal/linux/eal_lcore.c
+++ b/lib/eal/linux/eal_lcore.c
@@ -72,3 +72,16 @@ eal_cpu_core_id(unsigned lcore_id)
 			"for lcore %u - assuming core 0", SYS_CPU_DIR, lcore_id);
 	return 0;
 }
+
+size_t
+eal_cpu_max(void)
+{
+	long n = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF);
+
+	if (n <= 0) {
+		EAL_LOG(WARNING, "sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) failed, "
+				"falling back to CPU_SETSIZE");
+		return CPU_SETSIZE;
+	}
+	return (size_t)n;
+}
diff --git a/lib/eal/windows/eal_lcore.c b/lib/eal/windows/eal_lcore.c
index a498044620..dcbba383f7 100644
--- a/lib/eal/windows/eal_lcore.c
+++ b/lib/eal/windows/eal_lcore.c
@@ -239,6 +239,12 @@ eal_cpu_core_id(unsigned int lcore_id)
 	return cpu_map.lcores[lcore_id].core_id;
 }
 
+size_t
+eal_cpu_max(void)
+{
+	return (size_t)cpu_map.lcore_count;
+}
+
 unsigned int
 eal_socket_numa_node(unsigned int socket_id)
 {
-- 
2.51.0



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