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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 18:15:34 +0200
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: support using 0 as coremask for
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On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 10:52 AM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 09:43:00AM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > Allow the user to specify that they don't want any core pinning from DPDK
> > by passing in the coremask of 0.
> > ---
>
> Apologies, missed my signoff, will add in V2, but will wait for feedback on
> this V1 first.

I did not see a v2, is this still for 21.05?

What are the usecases for this feature?
I could think of using this in combination with external threads in
applications like OVS... ?


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David Marchand