From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 970ACA0525 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:19:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 498282B8B; Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:19:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga06.intel.com (mga06.intel.com [134.134.136.31]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE24D2B8B; Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:19:13 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: UNKNOWN X-Amp-Original-Verdict: FILE UNKNOWN X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga008.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.65]) by orsmga104.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 22 Jan 2020 01:18:47 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.70,349,1574150400"; d="scan'208";a="220250002" Received: from yexl-server.sh.intel.com (HELO localhost) ([10.67.117.17]) by orsmga008.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 22 Jan 2020 01:18:46 -0800 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:18:21 +0800 From: Ye Xiaolong To: taox.zhu@intel.com Cc: konstantin.ananyev@intel.com, wenzhuo.lu@intel.com, dev@dpdk.org, stable@dpdk.org Message-ID: <20200122091821.GA14864@intel.com> References: <1577328342-216505-1-git-send-email-taox.zhu@intel.com> <20200115193848.29680-1-taox.zhu@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200115193848.29680-1-taox.zhu@intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/ixgbe: fix blocking system events X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: stable-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "stable" On 01/15, taox.zhu@intel.com wrote: >From: Zhu Tao > >IXGBE link status task use rte alarm thread in old implementation. >Sometime ixgbe link status task takes up to 9 seconds. This will >severely affect the rte-alarm-thread-dependent a task in the What does "rte-alarm-thread-dependent a task" mean? Thanks, Xiaolong >system, like interrupt or hotplug event. So replace with a >independent thread which has the same thread affinity settings >as rte interrupt. > >Fixes: 0408f47b ("net/ixgbe: fix busy polling while fiber link update") >Cc: stable@dpdk.org > >Signed-off-by: Zhu Tao