[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/9] eal/linux: move back interrupt thread init before setting affinity

[Rahul Lakkireddy]

Hi David,

On Monday, February 02/01/16, 2016 at 23:13:55 -0800, David Marchand wrote:
> Hello Rahul,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Rahul Lakkireddy
> <rahul.lakkireddy at chelsio.com> wrote:
> > On Friday, January 01/29/16, 2016 at 15:08:31 +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> >> Now that virtio pci driver is initialized in a constructor, we only need to
> >> move the interrupt thread init after loading the plugins.
> >> This way, chelsio driver should be happy again [1].
> >
> > Thank you for this patch.  I've tested it and it does improve the perf.
> > back when there is a queue on master lcore in l3fwd app.
> 
> Did you test the whole series ? or just this specific patch ?
> 

I've tested only this particular patch, not the whole series.

> Anyway, great, but this is still too fragile.
> 
> As discussed in the same thread as the problem you reported, there is
> some work over there to be done so that interrupts are "distributed"
> in a more flexible way.
> Did someone look at this ?
> Plans to work on this ? (post 2.3, I suppose)
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Marchand

Thanks,
Rahul