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

[Simon Kuenzer <simon.kuenzer-kcmmt4fgdiuHXe+LvDLADg@public.gmane.org>]

On 23.07.2014 11:04, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 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.
>

Hi all,

I can provide the same patch also for BSD. However, I do not have a 
machine to test it. Interested?

Thanks,

Simon