[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/ipn3ke: use ctrl thread to check link status

[Ye Xiaolong]

On 03/16, Andy Pei wrote:
>ipn3ke driver creates a thread to check link status.
>
>before this patch, pthread_create() is used to create
>thread, leaving the new thread unrestrained wrt cpu
>affinity.
>
>After this patch, rte_ctrl_thread_create() is used to
>create thread. The affinity of the new thread is based
>on the CPU affinity retrieved at the time rte_eal_init()
>was called, the dataplane and service lcores are then
>excluded.
>
>Fixes: 70d6b7f550f4 ("net/ipn3ke: add representor")
>Cc: rosen.xu at intel.com
>Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
>Signed-off-by: Andy Pei <andy.pei at intel.com>
>---
>Cc: david.marchand at redhat.com
>Cc: xiaolong.ye at intel.com
>Cc: ferruh.yigit at intel.com
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/ipn3ke/ipn3ke_representor.c b/drivers/net/ipn3ke/ipn3ke_representor.c
>index 80122e3..b673c49 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/ipn3ke/ipn3ke_representor.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/ipn3ke/ipn3ke_representor.c
>@@ -2598,7 +2598,8 @@ struct rte_eth_xstat_name *xstats_names,
> 	int ret;
> 
> 	if (ipn3ke_rpst_scan_num == 1) {
>-		ret = pthread_create(&ipn3ke_rpst_scan_thread,
>+		ret = rte_ctrl_thread_create(&ipn3ke_rpst_scan_thread,
>+			"ipn3ke scanner",
> 			NULL,
> 			ipn3ke_rpst_scan_handle_request, NULL);
> 		if (ret) {
>-- 
>1.8.3.1
>

Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel, Thanks.