[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/ixgbe: fix blocking system events

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 2/15/2020 3:41 PM, Ye Xiaolong wrote:
> On 01/15, taox.zhu at intel.com wrote:
>> From: Zhu Tao <taox.zhu at intel.com>
>>
>> IXGBE link status task use rte alarm thread in old implementation.
> 
> s/use/uses
> 
>> Sometime ixgbe link status task takes up to 9 seconds. This will
>> severely affect the rte-alarm-thread-dependent a task in the
>> system, like interrupt or hotplug event. So replace with a
> 
> s/a/an
> 
>> independent thread which has the same thread affinity settings
>> as rte interrupt.
>>
>> Fixes: 0408f47b ("net/ixgbe: fix busy polling while fiber link update")
> 
> Should be:
> 
> Fixes: 0408f47ba4d6 ("net/ixgbe: fix busy polling while fiber link update")
> 
>> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>>
> 
> Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel with Konstantin's ack, Thanks.
> 

Shared build is failing because of missing pthread library, fixing while merging
to next-net:

 diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/Makefile b/drivers/net/ixgbe/Makefile
 index 8b9d51f75..aec56a680 100644
 --- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/Makefile
 +++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/Makefile
 @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ endif
  LDLIBS += -lrte_eal -lrte_mbuf -lrte_mempool -lrte_ring
  LDLIBS += -lrte_ethdev -lrte_net -lrte_kvargs -lrte_hash
  LDLIBS += -lrte_bus_pci
 +LDLIBS += -lpthread

  #
  # Add extra flags for base driver files (also known as shared code)