[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/9] eal/linux: move back interrupt thread init before setting affinity

[Rahul Lakkireddy]

Hi David,

On Friday, January 01/29/16, 2016 at 15:08:31 +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> Now that virtio pci driver is initialized in a constructor, we only need to
> move the interrupt thread init after loading the plugins.
> This way, chelsio driver should be happy again [1].
> 
> [1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-November/028289.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at 6wind.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
> index 635ec36..62241ee 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
> @@ -823,6 +823,9 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
>  	if (eal_plugins_init() < 0)
>  		rte_panic("Cannot init plugins\n");
>  
> +	if (rte_eal_intr_init() < 0)
> +		rte_panic("Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n");
> +
>  	eal_thread_init_master(rte_config.master_lcore);
>  
>  	ret = eal_thread_dump_affinity(cpuset, RTE_CPU_AFFINITY_STR_LEN);
> @@ -834,9 +837,6 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
>  	if (rte_eal_dev_init() < 0)
>  		rte_panic("Cannot init pmd devices\n");
>  
> -	if (rte_eal_intr_init() < 0)
> -		rte_panic("Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n");
> -
>  	RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_SLAVE(i) {
>  
>  		/*
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 

Thank you for this patch.  I've tested it and it does improve the perf.
back when there is a queue on master lcore in l3fwd app.

Thanks,
Rahul