27/05/2025 17:29, Bruce Richardson: > This patchset performs some basic cleanup of EAL lcore arguments before > any more serious work is done on them (as discussed in previous patchset > revisions). > > * mark the old coremask parameter (-c) and service core mask (-s) as > deprecated, so they can be dropped in future. Everything should now be > done using core lists where possible. > * consolidate the, previously separate but similar, "-l" and "--lcores" > flags into just short and long versions of the same thing. This does > not affect the "--lcores" flag at all, but expands the scope of what > was possible with "-l". > * Add documentation of examples of use of the -l/--lcores parameter > > V5: adjust the examples in patch 3, to only use quotes where necessary > and explain in a note why they are sometimes used in the examples. > > Bruce Richardson (3): > eal: deprecate old coremask-based EAL parameters > eal: merge corelist and core mapping options > doc: provide examples of using lcores EAL parameter
This first step looks reasonnable, but we need more acks for the deprecation. Applied without the first patch deprecating the famous -c option, pending for a later stage in this release cycle. Thanks
