On Fri, 01 Sep 2023 16:08:48 +0200 Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote:
> Hello Abdullah, > > In the DLB2 code, I see a thread is created for a single operation: > In drivers/event/dlb2/pf/base/dlb2_resource.c > pthread_create(&pthread, NULL, &dlb2_pp_profile_func, &dlb2_thread_data[i]); > and just after: > pthread_join(pthread, NULL); > > Can we avoid creating this thread? > I guess no, because it must spawn on a specific CPU. > > The per thread data seems to break lots of expectations in EAL. It all seems to be about capturing the number of cycles on different cores. Looks like a mess.
