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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: Service lcores and Application lcores
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 22:18:44 +0200
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29/06/2017 18:35, Van Haaren, Harry:
> 3) The problem;
>    If a service core runs the SW PMD schedule() function (option 2) *AND*
>    the application lcore runs schedule() func (option 1), the result is that
>    two threads are concurrently running a multi-thread unsafe function.

Which function is multi-thread unsafe?
Why the same function would be run by the service and by the scheduler?