Threads using mempools

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 10:21:16AM +0000, Dumitrescu, Cristian wrote:
>    Hi folks,
> 
> 
>    Is there a way in DPDK to create a POSIX thread in the driver/app and
>    hook it up to an existing mempool by creating a mempool cache on the
>    fly for this thread?
> 
> 
>    The regular RTE lcores and service cores seem to be the only threads
>    that have access to mempools, is my observation correct? This would
>    prevent (on purpose?) the drivers/apps to create threads that can be
>    directly involved in processing packets.
> 
> 
"rte_thread_register" is the API you are looking for, I think. It assigns
an lcore_id to a non-DPDK thread so it can access mempools etc.

/Bruce