Hello,

We are struggling to understand how the main lcore works and what is exactly done in it when it run.

This need of understanding come from some issues we see when setting the main lcore on the core 0 NUMA 0.
When we do that we see some latency spike in the packet interval time like if the tx_burst was blocked for 1ms despite being on another lcore than the main one.

The spike are really annoying because our usecase is time sensitive.

The questions are:

- What is the exact role of the main lcore?
- How does the main lcore works ?
- Do you have recommendation on which cpu core to assign main lcore ?
- Why would we observe the packet interval time only on core 0 ?
- Is there an implication of having interrupt on the main lcore on the other lcore ?

Thank you in advance for your help,

Antoine