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