On 6/22/20 4:25 PM, David Marchand wrote: > DPDK allows calling some part of its API from a non-EAL thread but this > has some limitations. > OVS (and other applications) has its own thread management but still > want to avoid such limitations by hacking RTE_PER_LCORE(_lcore_id) and > faking EAL threads potentially unknown of some DPDK component. > > Introduce a new API to register non-EAL thread and associate them to a > free lcore with a new NON_EAL role. > This role denotes lcores that do not run DPDK mainloop and as such > prevents use of rte_eal_wait_lcore() and consorts. > > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybche...@solarflare.com>
