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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, "David Marchand" <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	stable@dpdk.org, "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>,
	"Anatoly Burakov" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
	"Dmitry Kozlyuk" <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>,
	"Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile" <navasile@linux.microsoft.com>,
	"Dmitry Malloy" <dmitrym@microsoft.com>,
	"Pallavi Kadam" <pallavi.kadam@intel.com>,
	"Tyler Retzlaff" <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>,
	"Andrew Rybchenko" <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>,
	"Konstantin Ananyev" <konstantin.v.ananyev@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] eal/unix: allow creating thread with real-time priority
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 18:46:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23265462.6Emhk5qWAg@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231025083700.4e3e274c@hermes.local>

25/10/2023 17:37, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 17:13:14 +0200
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
> 
> >  	case RTE_THREAD_PRIORITY_REALTIME_CRITICAL:
> > +		/*
> > +		 * WARNING: Real-time busy loop takes priority on kernel threads,
> > +		 *          making the system unstable.
> > +		 *          There is also a known issue when using rte_ring.
> > +		 */
> 
> I was thinking something like:
> 
> 	static bool warned;
> 	if (!warned) {
> 		RTE_LOG(NOTICE, EAL, "Real time priority is unstable when thread is polling without sleep\n");
> 		warned = true;
> 	}

I'm not sure about bothering users.
They can fear something is wrong even if the developer took care of it.
I think doc warnings for developers are more appropriate.
I've added notes in the API.



  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-25 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-24 12:54 [PATCH] " Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-24 13:55 ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-24 16:04   ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-25 13:15     ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-25 13:34       ` Bruce Richardson
2023-10-25 13:44         ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-25 15:08           ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-25 15:14             ` Bruce Richardson
2023-10-25 15:18               ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-25 15:32                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-25 15:13 ` [PATCH v2] " Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-25 15:37   ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-25 16:46     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2023-10-25 17:54       ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-25 21:33         ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-26  7:33           ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-26 16:32             ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-26 17:07               ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-26  0:00         ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-25 16:31 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] " Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-25 16:31   ` [PATCH v3 1/2] eal: add thread yield functions Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-25 16:40     ` Bruce Richardson
2023-10-25 17:06       ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-25 18:07     ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-25 16:31   ` [PATCH v3 2/2] eal/unix: allow creating thread with real-time priority Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 13:36   ` [PATCH v3 0/2] " Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 13:44     ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-26 13:57       ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-26 14:04         ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 14:08           ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-26 14:30             ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 14:50               ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-26 14:59                 ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-26 15:54                   ` Bruce Richardson
2023-10-26 16:07                     ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 16:50                       ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-26 19:51                         ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-27  7:19                           ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-26 16:28             ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-26 19:55               ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 21:10                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-26 14:10         ` David Marchand
2023-10-26 13:37 ` [PATCH v4 " Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 13:37   ` [PATCH v4 1/2] eal: add thread yield functions Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 13:37   ` [PATCH v4 2/2] eal/unix: allow creating thread with real-time priority Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 14:19 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] " Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 14:19   ` [PATCH v5 1/2] eal: add thread yield functions Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 14:19   ` [PATCH v5 2/2] eal/unix: allow creating thread with real-time priority Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 20:00   ` [PATCH v5 0/2] " Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-26 23:35     ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-10-27  8:08 ` [PATCH v6 1/1] eal/unix: " Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-27  8:45   ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-27  9:11     ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-27 18:15     ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-10-07 19:27   ` Stephen Hemminger

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