[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/3] rte: add keep alive functionality

[Remy Horton]

On 11/11/2015 16:28, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Also Linux has more robust mechanism in the watchdog timers, why not use that?

Keepalive was made with tight intra-process reporting intervals of 
5-10ms in mind, whereas Linux watchdog appears to be an inter-process 
system that operates with granularity of seconds.


> Could you use RTE_PER_LCORE some how?

Possibly, although not sure what it gains..


>> +	struct rte_keepalive *keepcfg = (struct rte_keepalive *)ptr_data;
> Cast of void  * is unnecessary in C.

Old habbits die hard.. :)

v+1 on way.


..Remy