[PATCH 3/7] app/test/mempool_perf: size mempool by tested cores

[Andrew Rybchenko]

On 5/29/26 8:10 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The mempool size is computed from rte_lcore_count() so on systems
> with many lcores the test requires multiple GB of hugepages even
> for the single-core and dual-core variants.  On a 20 lcore system
> with 2 GB of hugepages the test fails with:
> 
>    cannot populate ring_mp_mc mempool
>    Test Failed
> 
> Size the four mempools by the number of cores actually exercised.
> 
> Return TEST_SKIPPED rather than -1 when allocation or populate of
> a mempool fails, so insufficient memory is reported as a skip and
> not as a test failure.  Propagate the skip through the combined
> mempool_perf_autotest wrapper.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>

Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko at oktetlabs.ru>