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From: "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
To: <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Thread priority for background tasks
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:40:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35E9FC19@smartserver.smartshare.dk> (raw)

There are only two thread priorities in the enum rte_thread_priority: Normal and Real-time Critical.

I would like to poll ethdev counters, collect garbage and perform other jitter non-sensitive tasks in a control thread with lower priority than my ordinary control threads, so it will be preempted by any work ready for my ordinary control threads.

Which DPDK API am I supposed to use to assign this below-normal priority to my "background" control thread?

Or: Aren't we missing a priority like Linux' SCHED_BATCH?


Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards,
-Morten Brørup


             reply	other threads:[~2025-04-30 18:40 UTC|newest]

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2025-04-30 18:40 Morten Brørup [this message]
2025-04-30 19:45 ` Stephen Hemminger

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