[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/linuxapp: Add parameter to specify master lcore id

Hiroshi Shimamoto h-shimamoto at ct.jp.nec.com
Wed Jul 23 10:53:09 CEST 2014


Hi,

> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/linuxapp: Add parameter to specify master lcore id
> 
> Hi Hiroshi,
> 
> 2014-07-22 23:40, Hiroshi Shimamoto:
> > does anyone have interest in this functionality?
> >
> > I think this is important and useful.
> > Since we should care about core assignment to get high performance
> > and the master lcore thread is special in DPDK, we will want to
> > assign the master to the target core.
> > For example, with hyperthreading I'd like to make a pair of packet
> > processing threads into one physical core and separate the master
> > thread which does some management.
> 
> Thank you for showing your interest.
> Does it mean you carefully reviewed this patch? In this case, I'd appreciate
> a note "Reviewed-by:".

Not yet deeply, wait a bit, we're testing this patch in our application.
Will report if it works fine.

By the way, we should add the same code into the BSD code, right?

thanks,
Hiroshi

> 
> Thanks
> --
> Thomas


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