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From: fengchengwen <fengchengwen@huawei.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>, <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: <thomas@monjalon.net>, <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	<luca.boccassi@gmail.com>, <stable@dpdk.org>,
	Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>,
	Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] eal/unix: optimize thread creation with glibc
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 08:19:47 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <338eb7c7-e746-4a52-a318-be275e70e258@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241103112519.2972691-1-david.marchand@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen@huawei.com>

On 2024/11/3 19:25, David Marchand wrote:
> Setting the cpu affinity of the child thread from the parent thread is
> racy when using pthread_setaffinity_np, as the child thread may start
> running and initialize before affinity is set.
> 
> On the other hand, setting the cpu affinity from the child thread itself
> may fail, so the parent thread waits for the child thread to report
> whether this call succeeded.
> 
> This synchronisation point resulted in a significant slow down of
> rte_thread_create() (as seen in the lcores_autotest unit tests, in OBS
> for some ARM systems).
> 
> Another option for setting cpu affinity is to use the not portable
> pthread_attr_setaffinity_np, but it is not available with musl.
> 
> Fixes: b28c6196b132 ("eal/unix: fix thread creation")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-11-04  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-02 10:08 [PATCH] " David Marchand
2024-11-02 11:32 ` [PATCH v2] " David Marchand
2024-11-02 12:36   ` Luca Boccassi
2024-11-02 19:58 ` [PATCH] " Stephen Hemminger
2024-11-03 10:37   ` David Marchand
2024-11-03 11:25 ` [PATCH v3] " David Marchand
2024-11-03 16:10   ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-11-04  0:19   ` fengchengwen [this message]
2024-11-04  8:57 ` [PATCH v4] eal/unix: optimize thread creation David Marchand
2024-11-04 17:12   ` David Marchand

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