[dpdk-dev] spinlock: Move constructor function out of header file
Thomas Monjalon
thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Fri Jul 15 12:09:54 CEST 2016
2016-07-15 09:54, Damjan Marion:
> So we don’t have much pending beside 2 patches for i40e which
> Jeff submitted yesterday and they will i guess need to wait for 16.11.
Yes these i40e patches will probably have to wait 16.11.
> Only one which I have on my mind is:
>
> https://git.fd.io/cgit/vpp/tree/dpdk/dpdk-16.04_patches/0005-Allow-applications-to-override-rte_delay_us.patch
>
> This is big issue for us when running single-core, as some
> drivers tend to call rte_delay_us for a long time, and that is
> causing packet drops. I.e. if you do stop/start on one interface
> and you are running BFD on another one, BFD will fail…
>
> Current patch is hack, it basically allows us to override
> delay function so we can de-schedule it,
> do some other useful work while waiting for delay to finish
> and then give control back to original function…
>
> Maybe we can fix this by providing a delay callback functionality...
Yes it could be an idea.
Please send a RFC patch.
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