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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, bruce.richardson@intel.com, hemant.agrawal@nxp.com,
	nipun.gupta@nxp.com, narender.vangati@intel.com,
	jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com, gage.eads@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] Service Cores concept
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 00:11:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5129240.aMJQgb24zL@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1493810961-139469-1-git-send-email-harry.van.haaren@intel.com>

03/05/2017 13:29, Harry van Haaren:
> The concept is to allow a software function register itself with EAL as
> a "service", which requires CPU time to perform its duties. Multiple
> services can be registered in an application, if more than one service
> exists. The application can retrieve a list of services, and decide how
> many "service cores" to use. The number of service cores is removed
> from the application usage, and they are mapped to services based on
> an application supplied coremask.
> 
> The application now continues as normal, without having to manually
> schedule and implement arbitration of CPU time for the SW services.

I think it should not be the DPDK responsibility to schedule threads.
The mainloops and scheduling are application design choices.

If I understand well the idea of your proposal, it is a helper for
the application to configure the thread scheduling of known services.
So I think we could add interrupt processing and other thread creations
in this concept.
Could we also embed the rte_eal_mp_remote_launch() calls in this concept?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-16 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-03 11:29 Harry van Haaren
2017-05-03 11:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC] service core concept header implementation Harry van Haaren
2017-05-04  6:35   ` Jerin Jacob
2017-05-04 12:01     ` Jerin Jacob
2017-05-05 15:48       ` Van Haaren, Harry
2017-05-06 14:26         ` Jerin Jacob
2017-05-17 12:47   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-05-17 12:58     ` Bruce Richardson
2017-05-17 13:47       ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-05-25 13:27         ` Van Haaren, Harry
2017-05-16 22:11 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2017-05-16 22:48   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC] Service Cores concept Wiles, Keith
2017-05-17 10:32   ` Bruce Richardson
2017-05-17 11:28     ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-05-17 12:36       ` Bruce Richardson
2017-05-17 14:51       ` [dpdk-dev] Discuss plugin threading model for DPDK Wiles, Keith
2017-05-17 15:46         ` Thomas Monjalon

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