From: Pavan Bhagavatula <pbhagavat...@caviumnetworks.com> The rte_timer_reset function should be able to register timers on service lcores as they are EAL threads.
Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavat...@caviumnetworks.com> Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haa...@intel.com> --- This patch depends on http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/29056/ v3 changes: -updated the API as per the new lcore role API v2 changes: -modified the commit title. lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.c b/lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.c index 5ee0840..ec86744 100644 --- a/lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.c +++ b/lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.c @@ -432,7 +432,8 @@ rte_timer_reset(struct rte_timer *tim, uint64_t ticks, uint64_t period; if (unlikely((tim_lcore != (unsigned)LCORE_ID_ANY) && - !rte_lcore_is_enabled(tim_lcore))) + !(rte_lcore_is_enabled(tim_lcore) || + rte_lcore_has_role(tim_lcore, ROLE_SERVICE)))) return -1; if (type == PERIODICAL) -- 2.7.4
