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From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] fix control thread affinities
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 17:20:17 +0100
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On 03-Apr-18 2:04 PM, Olivier Matz wrote:
> Some parts of dpdk use their own management threads. Most of the time,
> the affinity of the thread is not properly set: it should not be scheduled
> on the dataplane cores, because interrupting them can cause packet losses.
> 
> This patchset introduces a new wrapper for thread creation that does
> the job automatically, avoiding code duplication.
> 
> v2:
> * set affinity to master core if no core is off, as suggested by
>    Anatoly

This will need a rebase, as there were new pthreads added since this was 
submitted. There are now two new threads in eal_common_proc.c, that i 
know of.

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly