> On 15 Jul 2016, at 12:09, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> > wrote: > > 2016-07-15 09:54, Damjan Marion: >> So we don?t have much pending beside 2 patches for i40e which >> Jeff submitted yesterday and they will i guess need to wait for 16.11. > > Yes these i40e patches will probably have to wait 16.11. > >> Only one which I have on my mind is: >> >> https://git.fd.io/cgit/vpp/tree/dpdk/dpdk-16.04_patches/0005-Allow-applications-to-override-rte_delay_us.patch >> >> This is big issue for us when running single-core, as some >> drivers tend to call rte_delay_us for a long time, and that is >> causing packet drops. I.e. if you do stop/start on one interface >> and you are running BFD on another one, BFD will fail? >> >> Current patch is hack, it basically allows us to override >> delay function so we can de-schedule it, >> do some other useful work while waiting for delay to finish >> and then give control back to original function? >> >> Maybe we can fix this by providing a delay callback functionality... > > Yes it could be an idea. > Please send a RFC patch.
OK, I will ask one of our guys to work on it...
