From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Ian Betts <ian.betts@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 0/4] examples: add performance-thread
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 19:33:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1850494.rdblc2vbpm@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151204100359.6b966aea@xeon-e3>
2015-12-04 10:03, Stephen Hemminger:
> Looks useful, but this needs more discussion.
>
> Maybe it should be a separate library not tied into DPDK so
> it gets wider use and testing? Also what are the limitations?
> What if an lthread did a system call? What about interaction
> with rte_poll?
>
> Earlier attempts at lightweight threading (fibers) would be worth
> looking into. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CooperativeThreading
> Intel Thread Building Blocks
> IBM NGPT (now defunct)
>
> There lots of hidden gotcha's here, like preemption (or not),
> and limitations on interactions with other libraries.
>
> Intel may have some milestone to get it into DPDK 2.2 but
> really this seems too late...
Yes, sure it is too late to have enough discussions in 2.2 timeframe.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-04 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-03 16:21 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 " Ian Betts
2015-12-03 16:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 1/4] doc: add sample application guide for performance-thread Ian Betts
2015-12-03 16:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 2/4] examples: add lthread subsystem " Ian Betts
2015-12-04 10:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 0/4] examples: add performance-thread Ian Betts
2015-12-04 10:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 1/4] doc: add sample application guide for performance-thread Ian Betts
2015-12-07 17:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 0/4] examples: add performance-thread Ian Betts
2015-12-07 17:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 1/4] doc: add sample application guide for performance-thread Ian Betts
2015-12-07 17:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 2/4] examples: add lthread subsystem " Ian Betts
2015-12-07 17:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 3/4] examples: add l3fwd-thread example in performance-thread Ian Betts
2015-12-08 1:35 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-08 1:54 ` Betts, Ian
2015-12-08 2:28 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-08 1:39 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-07 17:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 4/4] examples: add pthread_shim example to performance thread Ian Betts
2015-12-04 10:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 2/4] examples: add lthread subsystem forperformance-thread Ian Betts
2015-12-07 2:38 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-04 10:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 3/4] examples: add l3fwd-thread example in performance-thread Ian Betts
2015-12-07 2:36 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-07 4:46 ` Betts, Ian
2015-12-07 11:20 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-04 10:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 4/4] examples: add pthread_shim example to performance thread Ian Betts
2015-12-04 11:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 0/4] examples: add performance-thread Kulasek, TomaszX
2015-12-04 18:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-12-04 18:33 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2015-12-05 12:06 ` Betts, Ian
2015-12-05 17:53 ` Glynn, Michael J
2015-12-05 19:47 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-12-05 21:21 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-06 6:17 ` Betts, Ian
2015-12-04 22:10 ` Betts, Ian
2015-12-03 16:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 3/4] examples: add l3fwd-thread example in performance-thread Ian Betts
2015-12-03 16:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 4/4] examples: add pthread_shim example to performance thread Ian Betts
2015-12-03 16:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 0/4] examples: add performance-thread Kulasek, TomaszX
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