Hi Stephen, It is probing ports for best CPU. Yes it collects cycles. We may rework in the future. Open to suggestions.
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 12:45 PM To: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> Cc: Sevincer, Abdullah <abdullah.sevin...@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Tyler Retzlaff <roret...@linux.microsoft.com> Subject: Re: quick thread in DLB2 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.
