[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] eal: fix parsing zero socket memory and limits

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 22-Jan-19 4:27 PM, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> Modern memory mode allowes to not reserve any memory by the
> '--socket-mem' option. i.e. it could be possible to specify
> zero preallocated memory like '--socket-mem 0'.
> Also, it should be possible to configure unlimited memory
> allocations by '--socket-limit 0'.
> 
> Both cases are impossible now and blocks starting the DPDK
> application:
> 
>      ./dpdk-app --socket-limit 0 <...>
>      EAL: invalid parameters for --socket-limit
>      EAL: Invalid 'command line' arguments.
>      Unable to initialize DPDK: Invalid argument
> 
> Fixes: 6b42f75632f0 ("eal: enable non-legacy memory mode")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at samsung.com>
> ---

That's kind of an odd parameter to pass, as it is assumed that if you 
don't need any limitations or preallocated memory, you don't specify 
these flags in the first place, but OK :)

Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>

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Thanks,
Anatoly