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netdev-dpdk: Properly support non pmd threads.

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We used to reserve DPDK lcore 0 for non pmd operations, making it
difficult to use core 0 for packet processing.
DPDK 2.0 properly support non EAL threads with lcore LCORE_ID_ANY.

Using non EAL threads for non pmd threads, we do not need to reserve
any core for non pmd operations

Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
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Daniele Di Proietto
2015-05-22 17:14:20 +01:00
committed by Ethan Jackson
parent bd5131ba76
commit d5c199ea7f
6 changed files with 12 additions and 29 deletions
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lib/dpctl.c
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@@ -783,6 +783,12 @@ dpctl_dump_flows(int argc, const char *argv[], struct dpctl_params *dpctl_p)
}
}
/* Make sure that these values are different. PMD_ID_NULL means that the
* pmd is unspecified (e.g. because the datapath doesn't have different
* pmd threads), while NON_PMD_CORE_ID refers to every non pmd threads
* in the userspace datapath */
BUILD_ASSERT(PMD_ID_NULL != NON_PMD_CORE_ID);
ds_init(&ds);
flow_dump = dpif_flow_dump_create(dpif, false);
flow_dump_thread = dpif_flow_dump_thread_create(flow_dump);