eal: new function to create control threads

[dpdk.git] / lib / librte_eal / linuxapp / eal / eal_timer.c

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_timer.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_timer.c
index f2abb7b..1766f93 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_timer.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_timer.c
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
 #include <rte_cycles.h>
 #include <rte_lcore.h>
 #include <rte_memory.h>
-#include <rte_memzone.h>
 #include <rte_eal.h>
 #include <rte_debug.h>
 
@@ -114,7 +113,7 @@ static pthread_t msb_inc_thread_id;
 
 /*
  * This function runs on a specific thread to update a global variable
- * containing used to process MSB of the HPET (unfortunatelly, we need
+ * containing used to process MSB of the HPET (unfortunately, we need
  * this because hpet is 32 bits by default under linux).
  */
 static void
@@ -208,7 +207,7 @@ rte_eal_hpet_init(int make_default)
 
        /* create a thread that will increment a global variable for
         * msb (hpet is 32 bits by default under linux) */
-       ret = pthread_create(&msb_inc_thread_id, NULL,
+       ret = rte_ctrl_thread_create(&msb_inc_thread_id, NULL,
                        (void *(*)(void *))hpet_msb_inc, NULL);
        if (ret != 0) {
                RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "ERROR: Cannot create HPET timer thread!\n");
@@ -222,8 +221,8 @@ rte_eal_hpet_init(int make_default)
        snprintf(thread_name, RTE_MAX_THREAD_NAME_LEN, "hpet-msb-inc");
        ret = rte_thread_setname(msb_inc_thread_id, thread_name);
        if (ret != 0)
-               RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL,
-                       "ERROR: Cannot set HPET timer thread name!\n");
+               RTE_LOG(DEBUG, EAL,
+                       "Cannot set HPET timer thread name!\n");
 
        if (make_default)
                eal_timer_source = EAL_TIMER_HPET;