On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 10:36:13AM +0000, Burakov, Anatoly wrote: > On 16-Feb-21 9:43 AM, Bruce Richardson wrote: > > Allow the user to specify that they don't want any core pinning from DPDK > > by passing in the coremask of 0. > > --- > > I haven't checked what happens yet, but down the line we also set affinity > for service cores as well as interrupt thread. what would be the semantics > of those in this particular case? do we want the same ability for service > cores (i.e. pick a non-affinitized core)? And where does interrupt thread > affinitize in this case (presumably, nowhere too)? > I have not checked the service core setup, because a) I forgot about them and b) I'm not sure how their affinity rules work with respect to the main lcore mask. On the other hand I did check out that the lcore mask for all non-pinned threads, or control threads, is the full set of bits as expected.
/Bruce
