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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/9] eal: register non-EAL threads as
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 3:16 PM Ananyev, Konstantin
<konstantin.ananyev@intel.com> wrote:
> > Even before this series, MP has no protection on lcore placing between
> > primary and secondary processes.
>
> Agree, it is not a new problem, it has been there for a while.
> Though making lcore assignment dynamic will make it more noticeable and harder to avoid.
> With static only lcore distribution it is much easier to control things.
>
> > Personally, I have no use for DPDK MP and marking MP as not supporting
> > this new feature is tempting for a first phase.
> > If this is a strong requirement, I can look at it in a second phase.
> > What do you think?
>
> In theory it is possible to mark this new API as not supported for MP.
> At least for now. Though I think it is sort of temporal solution.
> AFAIK, MP is used by customers, so sooner or later someone will hit that problem.

I understand this argument.
But then we don't see those customers giving feedback.


> Let say, we do have pdump app/library in our mainline.
> As I can see - it will be affected when users will start using this new dynamic lcore API
> inside their apps.

Supporting lcore allocation in MP requires exchanges between
primary/secondary processes like what we have for memory allocations.
It will be quite a beast to get to work fine, while not even knowing
if people actually want to use both.

For v4, I added a check to exclude MP and the new API.
I am still willing to help if people do care about using both features together.


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David Marchand