On Mon, Jun 8, 2026 at 11:14 PM Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Yes. As I mentioned earlier, it is not cnxk is not SMT so it will not be useful for cnxk.
