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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Sevincer, Abdullah" <abdullah.sevincer@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: quick thread in DLB2
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 16:37:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230907163739.2a699d8b@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR11MB31582C7727272F6F7E9517F3E9EEA@BYAPR11MB3158.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

On Thu, 7 Sep 2023 22:09:06 +0000
"Sevincer, Abdullah" <abdullah.sevincer@intel.com> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> It is probing ports for best CPU. Yes it collects cycles. We may rework in the future.
> Open to suggestions.

Why is this device a special snowflake? All threading should be using the existing
infrastructure of service and control threads. Doing it this way looks like a special
case optimization for testpmd.  What if the user is using a multi-stage pipeline,
flow rules, secondary processes, rings etc. Look at some of the real applications
using DPDK.  And talk to some of the network equipment vendors.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-07 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-01 14:08 Thomas Monjalon
2023-09-04 19:13 ` Sevincer, Abdullah
2023-09-06 19:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-09-07 22:09   ` Sevincer, Abdullah
2023-09-07 23:37     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2023-09-08  7:28     ` Mattias Rönnblom
2023-09-11 14:28       ` Sevincer, Abdullah
2023-09-13 15:48         ` Mattias Rönnblom
2023-09-13 20:56           ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2023-09-14  8:09             ` Mattias Rönnblom

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