[PATCH v8] enhance NUMA affinity heuristic

[Thomas Monjalon]

01/06/2023 16:42, David Marchand:
> On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 11:03 AM Kaisen You <kaisenx.you at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > When a DPDK application is started on only one numa node, memory is
> > allocated for only one socket. When interrupt threads use memory,
> > memory may not be found on the socket where the interrupt thread
> > is currently located, and memory has to be reallocated on the hugepage,
> > this operation will lead to performance degradation.
> >
> > Fixes: 705356f0811f ("eal: simplify control thread creation")
> > Fixes: 770d41bf3309 ("malloc: fix allocation with unknown socket ID")
> > Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Backporting this kind of change seems risky for a LTS.
> Heads up for LTS maintainers.
> 
> Anatoly, are we sure we want it backported?

No answer, so I take on me to remove the backport request.

Applied with minor fix suggested by Anatoly.
Hope this patch will have no side effect.