Hi Stephen,

> + while (true) {
> +  if (rte_bitmap_get(chan_info->mailbox.state_bmp, NBL_CHAN_INTERRUPT_READY)) {
> +   nr = read(chan_info->mailbox.fd[0], &unused, sizeof(unused));
> +   if (nr < 0)
> +    break;
> +  }
> +  nbl_chan_clean_queue(chan_mgt);
> +  nanosleep(&time, 0);
> + }

The chan_info->mailbox.fd[0] is the read fd of eventfd. We are using the eventfd block waiting to read mailbox message.

Thank you.

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发件人：Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
发送时间：2025年8月21日(周四) 00:16
收件人：Dimon<dimon.zhao@nebula-matrix.com>
抄　送：dev<dev@dpdk.org>; Kyo Liu<kyo.liu@nebula-matrix.com>; Leon<leon.yu@nebula-matrix.com>; Sam<sam.chen@nebula-matrix.com>
主　题：Re: [PATCH v5 04/17] net/nbl: add Channel layer definitions and implementation

On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 03:22:24 -0700
Dimon Zhao <dimon.zhao@nebula-matrix.com> wrote:

> +
> +static uint32_t nbl_chan_thread_polling_task(void *param)
> +{
> + struct nbl_channel_mgt *chan_mgt = (struct nbl_channel_mgt *)param;
> + union nbl_chan_info *chan_info = NBL_CHAN_MGT_TO_CHAN_INFO(chan_mgt);
> + struct timespec time;
> + char unused[16];
> + ssize_t nr = 0;
> +
> + time.tv_sec = 0;
> + time.tv_nsec = 100000;
> +
> + while (true) {
> +  if (rte_bitmap_get(chan_info->mailbox.state_bmp, NBL_CHAN_INTERRUPT_READY)) {
> +   nr = read(chan_info->mailbox.fd[0], &unused, sizeof(unused));
> +   if (nr < 0)
> +    break;
> +  }
> +  nbl_chan_clean_queue(chan_mgt);
> +  nanosleep(&time, 0);
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}

This is going to make embedded application developers upset because it uses
a significant part of a CPU polling.

Since you are reading from mailbox, why not implement select/poll/epoll and
have the thread block waiting to read mailbox instead.

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