[PATCH v8] enhance NUMA affinity heuristic

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 6/1/2023 3:42 PM, David Marchand wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 

Yeah, apologies, I was away on leave. Yeah I'd err on the side of not 
backporting anything unless this comes up independently.

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Thanks,
Anatoly