[dpdk-dev] [RFC v2] eal: simplify the implementation of rte_ctrl_thread_create

[Honnappa Nagarahalli]

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> On 2021-08-24 23:30, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 20:03:03 +0000
> > Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> One difference between this implementation and the previous one is
> >>> this busy loop. rte_pause() relaxes the cpu, but will not make the
> >>> calling thread to sleep and wait for the sync event. So here we can
> >>> spin a quite long time until the other thread is scheduled by the OS.
> >> Yes, this is a difference. We could add a microsleep to allow for the OS to
> un-schedule the current thread.
> >
> > Why not use sched_yield() here?
> >
> 
> The man page is not exactly encouraging the use sched_yield on CFS.
Sorry, what is CFS?
There are already several uses of sched_yield in the code.