From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: "Mattias Rönnblom" <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eal: have unregistered non-EAL threads use dedicated PRNG
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 12:44:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8ypWTNbo=yGQj93H-vOLe=FfB1S9ARvwjpvfDehQa8-Zw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221205100334.3500-1-mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com>
On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 11:08 AM Mattias Rönnblom
<mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com> wrote:
>
> Prior to this change, unregistered non-EAL threads shared a PRNG
> instance with the main lcore. The main lcore may well be used for fast
> path processing, potentially making rte_rand() calls in the
> process. It should not need to synchronize with control threads.
>
> With this change, all unregistered non-EAL threads share one dedicated
> PRNG instance.
>
> The API documentation is updated to use the proper terminology when
> referring to threads equipped with an lcore id.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
Applied, thanks.
--
David Marchand
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-10 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-05 10:03 Mattias Rönnblom
2022-12-05 10:58 ` Morten Brørup
2022-12-06 15:14 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2023-02-10 11:44 ` David Marchand [this message]
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