Hi, On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 03:46:26PM +0100, Olivier Matz wrote: > Some parts of dpdk use their own management threads. Most of the time, > the affinity of the thread is not properly set: it should not be scheduled > on the dataplane cores, because interrupting them can cause packet losses. > > This patchset introduces a new wrapper for thread creation that does > the job automatically, avoiding code duplication. > > Olivier Matz (4): > eal: use sizeof to avoid a double use of a define > eal: new function to create control threads > eal: set name when creating a control thread > eal: set affinity for control threads > > drivers/net/kni/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/net/kni/rte_eth_kni.c | 3 +- > lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c | 2 +- > lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal_thread.c | 2 +- > lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_thread.c | 70 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_lcore.h | 26 ++++++++++ > lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 4 +- > lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_interrupts.c | 17 ++----- > lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_thread.c | 2 +- > lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_timer.c | 12 +---- > lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio_mp_sync.c | 10 +--- > lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_version.map | 1 + > lib/librte_pdump/Makefile | 1 + > lib/librte_pdump/rte_pdump.c | 13 ++--- > lib/librte_vhost/socket.c | 7 +-- > 15 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
Any comment about this patchset? Thanks, Olivier
