[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: support using 0 as coremask for no-affinitization

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 06:15:34PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 10:52 AM Bruce Richardson
> <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 09:43:00AM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > > Allow the user to specify that they don't want any core pinning from
> > > DPDK by passing in the coremask of 0.  ---
> >
> > Apologies, missed my signoff, will add in V2, but will wait for
> > feedback on this V1 first.
> 
> I did not see a v2, is this still for 21.05?
> 
> What are the usecases for this feature?  I could think of using this in
> combination with external threads in applications like OVS... ?
> 
There was some good feedback and asks for extension of this to cover other
core masks like for service cores. Unfortunately, as things stand, I'm
unlikely to get enough time to work on this within 21.05 timeframe. :-(
If there is still interest, perhaps someone else can pick it up to do a V2,
otherwise I'll hopefully pick it up again in a few weeks for 21.08.

/Bruce