[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: detach interrupt and worker threads

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 4:41 AM Stephen Hemminger
<stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
>
> The EAL library does not wait (pthread_join) these threads
> so the should be detached so that library can release resources.
> This shows up when looking for memory leaks with tools like
> valgrind.

The FreeBSD interrupt thread can be detached too.

There is also the hpet-msb-inc thread in Linux that could be detached,
maybe in a followup patch?

>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>

With FreeBSD interrupt thread addition, you can add:
Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>


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David Marchand