[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] net/softnic: add support for service cores

[Thomas Monjalon]

10/01/2019 14:26, Cristian Dumitrescu:
> Add support to run the Soft NIC device on service cores, based on the
> value of the sc parameter:
> 
> 0: The current Soft NIC device is run explicitly by the application. The
>    firmware creates one or several pipelines for this dev and maps them
>    to CPU cores that should not be service cores. The app is required to
>    call rte_pmd_softnic_run() to make this dev work.
> 
> 1 (default): The current device is run on the service cores transparently
>    to the app. The firmware creates one or several pipelines for this dev
>    current device and maps them to CPU cores that should be service cores.
>    Each of these service cores is calling rte_pmd_softnic_run()
>    in order to make this dev work with no app intervention.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.singh at intel.com>
> ---
> Changes in v3:
> -re-added the commit message lost in v2 by mistake
> 
> Changes in v2:
> -fixed compilation for some 32-bit targets by removing the need for
> function pointer conversion

Applied, thanks