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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: add function to check if primary proc
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> From: Qiu, Michael
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: add function to check if primary pro=
c alive
>
> So secondary will waste a whole lcore to do such polling?

Not really, the secondary process will need some CPU,
however it can sleep so it doesn't have to use 100% of it.
It shouldn't be run on a core that is used by the primary
for packet-forwarding though - that will impact performance.

-Harry