2015-12-04 10:03, Stephen Hemminger: > Looks useful, but this needs more discussion. > > Maybe it should be a separate library not tied into DPDK so > it gets wider use and testing? Also what are the limitations? > What if an lthread did a system call? What about interaction > with rte_poll? > > Earlier attempts at lightweight threading (fibers) would be worth > looking into. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CooperativeThreading > Intel Thread Building Blocks > IBM NGPT (now defunct) > > There lots of hidden gotcha's here, like preemption (or not), > and limitations on interactions with other libraries. > > Intel may have some milestone to get it into DPDK 2.2 but > really this seems too late...
Yes, sure it is too late to have enough discussions in 2.2 timeframe.
