Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/linuxapp: Add parameter to specify master lcore id

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>]

2014-07-23 08:53, Hiroshi Shimamoto:
> 2014-07-23 09:50, Thomas Monjalon:
> > 2014-07-22 23:40, Hiroshi Shimamoto:
> > > does anyone have interest in this functionality?
> > >
> > > I think this is important and useful.
> > > Since we should care about core assignment to get high performance
> > > and the master lcore thread is special in DPDK, we will want to
> > > assign the master to the target core.
> > > For example, with hyperthreading I'd like to make a pair of packet
> > > processing threads into one physical core and separate the master
> > > thread which does some management.
> > 
> > Thank you for showing your interest.
> > Does it mean you carefully reviewed this patch? In this case, I'd appreciate
> > a note "Reviewed-by:".
> 
> Not yet deeply, wait a bit, we're testing this patch in our application.
> Will report if it works fine.
> 
> By the way, we should add the same code into the BSD code, right?

Right.
I'd prefer to reduce the duplicated footprint and have more common code
between BSD and Linux. But waiting this enhancement, we have to maintain
the duplicated code for BSD.

-- 
Thomas