[PATCH 2/2] net/nfp: enhance the flower service framework

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:45:57 +0800
Chaoyong He <chaoyong.he at corigine.com> wrote:

> +static void
> +nfp_flower_service_alarm_func(void *arg)
> +{
> +	int ret;
> +	uint16_t slot;
> +	struct nfp_net_hw_priv *hw_priv;
> +	struct nfp_flower_service *service_handle;
> +
> +	service_handle = arg;
> +	if (!service_handle->alarm_enabled)
> +		goto alarm_set;
> +
> +	rte_spinlock_lock(&service_handle->spinlock);
> +	for (slot = 0; slot < MAX_FLOWER_SERVICE_SLOT; slot++) {
> +		hw_priv = service_handle->slots[slot];
> +		if (hw_priv == NULL)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		nfp_flower_ctrl_vnic_process(hw_priv);
> +	}
> +	rte_spinlock_unlock(&service_handle->spinlock);
> +

The alarm handling is in a non EAL thread, and service is an lcore;
does that matter to this code?