On Mon, 8 Jun 2026 21:19:20 +0530 Jerin Jacob <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 10:36 PM Stephen Hemminger > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On SMT systems when a spinloop is done without a pause > > it may cause excessive latency. This problem was found > > by the fix_empty_spinloops coccinelle script. > > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> > > rte_pause() translates to YIELD instruction. Since cnxk is an > integrated SoC and it is a single threaded core, it won't help on > anything other than adding one instruction bit more latency. > In general 3/3 devtool is good. Please send a it separate version so > that 3/3 patches can be merged through the main tree. It matters if your SOC has SMT where two cores are sharing and one core is waiting for its partner.
