On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 10:21:16AM +0000, Dumitrescu, Cristian wrote: > Hi folks, > > > Is there a way in DPDK to create a POSIX thread in the driver/app and > hook it up to an existing mempool by creating a mempool cache on the > fly for this thread? > > > The regular RTE lcores and service cores seem to be the only threads > that have access to mempools, is my observation correct? This would > prevent (on purpose?) the drivers/apps to create threads that can be > directly involved in processing packets. > > "rte_thread_register" is the API you are looking for, I think. It assigns an lcore_id to a non-DPDK thread so it can access mempools etc.
/Bruce
