[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix rte_intr_dp_is_en() check

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Wed Jul 20 10:41:56 CEST 2016


2016-07-20 07:03, Liang, Cunming:
>    Probably a clean way is not to handle device external interrupt event in EAL
>    interrupt thread (intr mb may have some problem). The EAL interrupt thread is
>    only used to postpone the delay execution or other background interrupt
>    (e.g. alarm). Then misc/non-misc can be combined,  while requiring APP to
>    detect the interrupt causes. 

I am not sure it was a good idea to have a thread for the link interrupt.
It may be simpler and cleaner to let the application do the pthread_create.



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