On 1/25/2016 7:51 PM, Van Haaren, Harry wrote: >> From: Qiu, Michael >> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: add function to check if primary proc >> alive >> >> So secondary will waste a whole lcore to do such polling? > Not really, the secondary process will need some CPU, > however it can sleep so it doesn't have to use 100% of it. > It shouldn't be run on a core that is used by the primary > for packet-forwarding though - that will impact performance.
If not, what will happen if the primary been killed after you check alive? At that time, the secondary may be doing some work need primary alive. Thanks, Michael > -Harry >
