[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/linuxapp: Add parameter to specify master lcore id

Hiroshi Shimamoto h-shimamoto at ct.jp.nec.com
Mon Aug 4 04:48:30 CEST 2014


Hi,

> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/linuxapp: Add parameter to specify master lcore id
> 
> 2014-07-23 08:53, Hiroshi Shimamoto:
> > 2014-07-23 09:50, Thomas Monjalon:
> > > 2014-07-22 23:40, Hiroshi Shimamoto:
> > > > does anyone have interest in this functionality?
> > > >
> > > > I think this is important and useful.
> > > > Since we should care about core assignment to get high performance
> > > > and the master lcore thread is special in DPDK, we will want to
> > > > assign the master to the target core.
> > > > For example, with hyperthreading I'd like to make a pair of packet
> > > > processing threads into one physical core and separate the master
> > > > thread which does some management.
> > >
> > > Thank you for showing your interest.
> > > Does it mean you carefully reviewed this patch? In this case, I'd appreciate
> > > a note "Reviewed-by:".
> >
> > Not yet deeply, wait a bit, we're testing this patch in our application.
> > Will report if it works fine.

Sorry a delay, I had confirmed the functionality.
I'm fine to add
Reviewed-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto at ct.jp.nec.com>

thanks,
Hiroshi

> >
> > By the way, we should add the same code into the BSD code, right?
> 
> Right.
> I'd prefer to reduce the duplicated footprint and have more common code
> between BSD and Linux. But waiting this enhancement, we have to maintain
> the duplicated code for BSD.
> 
> --
> Thomas


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