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From: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: Question about rte_manage_timer() and
	eal_intr_handle_interrupts
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 08:06:13 +0530
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Thank you Anatoly and keith for your replies. What i still don't get is why
the two  cannot seem to co-exist?
That is , whenever this while loop was running in the EAL thread that i
showed in the code, my driver would stop receiving interrupts/async events
...Do we understand that?
But you are right Anatoly, i need something to be called in my driver at a
cadence of ~2s, I was registering timers in my driver and running
rte_timer_manage() in this seperate thread to check  and ensure the
callbacks are executed on expiry.
so if you are saying, i can achieve same functionality using rte_alarm()
while i can get async events in my driver at the same time, i will explore
this option
Thanks a lot

Som

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 8:07 PM Wiles, Keith <keith.wiles@intel.com> wrote:

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> > On Nov 2, 2018, at 9:35 AM, Wiles, Keith <keith.wiles@intel.com> wrote:
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> Sorry, meant to hit cancel for my previous email, Anatoly answered it
> correctly.
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> Regards,
> Keith
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