[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 09/10] eal: add EAL argument for setting thread priority

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Mar 30 23:11:39 CEST 2021


On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:40:39 -0700
Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile <navasile at linux.microsoft.com> wrote:

> From: Narcisa Vasile <navasile at microsoft.com>
> 
> Allow the user to choose the thread priority through an EAL
> command line argument.
> 
> The user can select the thread priority to be either 'normal'
> or 'critical':
> --thread-prio normal
> --thread-prio realtime
> 
> Signed-off-by: Narcisa Vasile <navasile at microsoft.com>

The discussion internally was that this was intended to resolve issues on Windows.
So it makes sense for Windows, but it is not something that we want to have on Linux.
Could you make this Windows only, and add update the documentation please.

I just don't want Linux users discovering it, trying it, then reporting more bugs.



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