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

[Ye Xiaolong]

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.
>Sometime ixgbe link status task takes up to 9 seconds. This will
>severely affect the rte-alarm-thread-dependent a task in the

What does "rte-alarm-thread-dependent a task" mean?

Thanks,
Xiaolong

>system, like interrupt or hotplug event. So replace with a
>independent thread which has the same thread affinity settings
>as rte interrupt.
>
>Fixes: 0408f47b ("net/ixgbe: fix busy polling while fiber link update")
>Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
>Signed-off-by: Zhu Tao <taox.zhu at intel.com>