On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 10:16 AM Morten Brørup <m...@smartsharesystems.com> wrote: > > > From: David Marchand [mailto:david.march...@redhat.com] > > Sent: Thursday, 7 March 2024 09.34 > > > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 8:49 AM Sivaprasad Tummala > > <sivaprasad.tumm...@amd.com> wrote: > > > > > > Currently the config option allows lcore IDs up to 255, > > > irrespective of RTE_MAX_LCORES and needs to be fixed. > > > > "needs to be fixed" ? > > I disagree on the principle. > > The examples were written with limitations, this is not a bug. > > Unfortunately, l3fwd is not only an example; it is also used for > benchmarking. It really belongs in some other directory. > > With that in mind, I would consider it a bug that the benchmarking > application cannot handle the amount of cores available in modern CPUs.
This is not a bug. And with careful configuration (using --lcores), you can already start l3fwd with 254 datapath threads, right? -- David Marchand
