On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 04:27:35AM -0700, Jim Harris wrote: > rte_eal_init() is much faster in secondary processes since > hugepages don't need to be zeroed. But there's still > non-trivial delays in the timer subsystem initialization > due to the 100ms sleep used to calculate TSC hz. So use > the rte_mp_msg framework to allow secondary processes > to get the TSC hz from the primary process. > > This cuts rte_eal_init() execution time in a secondary > process from 165ms to 66ms in my test program. > > Signed-off-by: Jim Harris <james.r.har...@intel.com> > ---
Rather than messaging, can we not just move the CPU frequency to being stored in a shared memory location? It's not something where different processes are going to need to be provided with different values.
