[dpdk-users] [DPDK 20.11] rte_eal_init() appear additional thread

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 01:51:14 +0000
"Dong, Shaojie (NSB - CN/Hangzhou)" <shaojie.dong at nokia-sbell.com> wrote:

> Hi,  DPDK expert
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> We updated dpdk version from 18.05 to 20.11
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> Using following parameter to call  rte_eal_init() with secondary instance

Which additional thread? When you start rte_eal_init it needs to create
several additional sleeping thread for monitoring.

If you don't want the worker/slave threads then either only use a cpuset
with a single CPU, or don't call rte_eal_launch()