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>
> The affinity of a control thread is set after it has been launched. If
> setting the
> affinity fails, pthread_cancel is called followed by a call to pthread_join,
> which
> can hang forever if the thread's start routine doesn't call a pthread
> cancellation point.
>
> This patch modifies the logic so that the control thread exits gracefully if
> the
> affinity cannot be set successfully and removes the call to pthread_cancel.
>
> Fixes: 6383d26 ("eal: set name when creating a control thread")
> Cc: olivier.m...@6wind.com
> Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Luc Pelletier <lucp.at.w...@gmail.com>
Looks good.
Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com>
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