patch 'eal: warn if no lcore is available' has been queued to stable release 22.11.9

[luca.boccassi at gmail.com]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 22.11.9

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 06/14/25. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Also note that after the patch there's a diff of the upstream commit vs the
patch applied to the branch. This will indicate if there was any rebasing
needed to apply to the stable branch. If there were code changes for rebasing
(ie: not only metadata diffs), please double check that the rebase was
correctly done.

Queued patches are on a temporary branch at:
https://github.com/bluca/dpdk-stable

This queued commit can be viewed at:
https://github.com/bluca/dpdk-stable/commit/2109b0ee034637cda55febebfdeb5c66ee4f060b

Thanks.

Luca Boccassi

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>From 2109b0ee034637cda55febebfdeb5c66ee4f060b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 07:19:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] eal: warn if no lcore is available

[ upstream commit 2ea1d30dc938866a983156473579d10bddb4951e ]

On systems with more cpu than RTE_MAX_LCORE, starting DPDK with
cores >= RTE_MAX_LCORE ends up with an ambiguous error log.

Example with RTE_MAX_LCORE=8:
$ taskset -c 8 ./build/app/dpdk-testpmd
EAL: Detected CPU lcores: 8
EAL: Detected NUMA nodes: 1
EAL: Invalid 'command line' arguments.
EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1
Cannot init EAL: Invalid argument

Add a better hint to help the user.

Fixes: 2eba8d21f3c9 ("eal: restrict cores auto detection")

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
---
 lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c
index 5312d03552..828fa2698b 100644
--- a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c
+++ b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c
@@ -2026,6 +2026,11 @@ eal_adjust_config(struct internal_config *internal_cfg)
 	if (!core_parsed)
 		eal_auto_detect_cores(cfg);
 
+	if (cfg->lcore_count == 0) {
+		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "No detected lcore is enabled, please check the core list\n");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	if (internal_conf->process_type == RTE_PROC_AUTO)
 		internal_conf->process_type = eal_proc_type_detect();
 
-- 
2.47.2

---
  Diff of the applied patch vs upstream commit (please double-check if non-empty:
---
--- -	2025-06-12 22:06:26.087751729 +0100
+++ 0061-eal-warn-if-no-lcore-is-available.patch	2025-06-12 22:06:23.890045060 +0100
@@ -1 +1 @@
-From 2ea1d30dc938866a983156473579d10bddb4951e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From 2109b0ee034637cda55febebfdeb5c66ee4f060b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
@@ -5,0 +6,2 @@
+[ upstream commit 2ea1d30dc938866a983156473579d10bddb4951e ]
+
@@ -20 +21,0 @@
-Cc: stable at dpdk.org
@@ -29 +30 @@
-index b6fff7ec05..b194d0ee06 100644
+index 5312d03552..828fa2698b 100644
@@ -32 +33 @@
-@@ -2052,6 +2052,11 @@ eal_adjust_config(struct internal_config *internal_cfg)
+@@ -2026,6 +2026,11 @@ eal_adjust_config(struct internal_config *internal_cfg)
@@ -37 +38 @@
-+		EAL_LOG(ERR, "No detected lcore is enabled, please check the core list");
++		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "No detected lcore is enabled, please check the core list\n");