A terminated pthread should be joined or detached so that its associated resources are released.
The "ark-delay-pg" thread is just used to delay some task but it is never joined by the thread that created it. The easiest solution is to detach the new thread. Fixes: 727b3fe292bc ("net/ark: integrate PMD") Cc: sta...@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> --- drivers/net/ark/ark_pktgen.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ark/ark_pktgen.c b/drivers/net/ark/ark_pktgen.c index 28a44f7546..515bfe461c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ark/ark_pktgen.c +++ b/drivers/net/ark/ark_pktgen.c @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ */ #include <unistd.h> +#include <pthread.h> #include <rte_string_fns.h> #include <rte_malloc.h> @@ -474,6 +475,7 @@ ark_pktgen_delay_start(void *arg) * perform a blind sleep here to ensure that the external test * application has time to setup the test before we generate packets */ + pthread_detach(pthread_self()); usleep(100000); ark_pktgen_run(inst); return NULL; -- 2.23.0