Spawning the ctrl threads on anything that is not part of the eal coremask is not that polite to the rest of the system, especially when you took good care to pin your processes on cpu resources with tools like taskset (linux) / cpuset (freebsd). Rather than introduce yet another eal options to control on which cpu those ctrl threads are created, let's take the startup cpu affinity as a reference and remove the eal coremask from it. If no cpu is left, then we default to the master core. The cpuset is computed once at init before the original cpu affinity is lost. Introduced a RTE_CPU_AND macro to abstract the differences between linux and freebsd respective macros. Examples in a 4 cores FreeBSD vm: $ ./build/app/testpmd -l 2,3 --no-huge --no-pci -m 512 \ -- -i --total-num-mbufs=2048 $ procstat -S 1057 PID TID COMM TDNAME CPU CSID CPU MASK 1057 100131 testpmd - 2 1 2 1057 100140 testpmd eal-intr-thread 1 1 0-1 1057 100141 testpmd rte_mp_handle 1 1 0-1 1057 100142 testpmd lcore-slave-3 3 1 3 $ cpuset -l 1,2,3 ./build/app/testpmd -l 2,3 --no-huge --no-pci -m 512 \ -- -i --total-num-mbufs=2048 $ procstat -S 1061 PID TID COMM TDNAME CPU CSID CPU MASK 1061 100131 testpmd - 2 2 2 1061 100144 testpmd eal-intr-thread 1 2 1 1061 100145 testpmd rte_mp_handle 1 2 1 1061 100147 testpmd lcore-slave-3 3 2 3 $ cpuset -l 2,3 ./build/app/testpmd -l 2,3 --no-huge --no-pci -m 512 \ -- -i --total-num-mbufs=2048 $ procstat -S 1065 PID TID COMM TDNAME CPU CSID CPU MASK 1065 100131 testpmd - 2 2 2 1065 100148 testpmd eal-intr-thread 2 2 2 1065 100149 testpmd rte_mp_handle 2 2 2 1065 100150 testpmd lcore-slave-3 3 2 3 Fixes: d651ee4919cd ("eal: set affinity for control threads") Cc: stable@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
DPDK is a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing. It supports many processor architectures and both FreeBSD and Linux. The DPDK uses the Open Source BSD-3-Clause license for the core libraries and drivers. The kernel components are GPL-2.0 licensed. Please check the doc directory for release notes, API documentation, and sample application information. For questions and usage discussions, subscribe to: users@dpdk.org Report bugs and issues to the development mailing list: dev@dpdk.org
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