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diff --git a/examples/pipeline/thread.c b/examples/pipeline/thread.c
index 7ff22e97f3..5fe7eae00e 100644
--- a/examples/pipeline/thread.c
+++ b/examples/pipeline/thread.c
@@ -30,6 +30,15 @@
 #define THREAD_TIMER_PERIOD_MS                             100
 #endif
 
+/* Pipeline instruction quanta: Needs to be big enough to do some meaningful
+ * work, but not too big to avoid starving any other pipelines mapped to the
+ * same thread. For a pipeline that executes 10 instructions per packet, a
+ * quanta of 1000 instructions equates to processing 100 packets.
+ */
+#ifndef PIPELINE_INSTR_QUANTA
+#define PIPELINE_INSTR_QUANTA                              1000
+#endif
+
 /**
  * Control thread: data plane thread context
  */
@@ -80,11 +89,9 @@ thread_free(void)
 			continue;
 
 		/* MSGQs */
-		if (t->msgq_req)
-			rte_ring_free(t->msgq_req);
+		rte_ring_free(t->msgq_req);
 
-		if (t->msgq_rsp)
-			rte_ring_free(t->msgq_rsp);
+		rte_ring_free(t->msgq_rsp);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -93,7 +100,7 @@ thread_init(void)
 {
 	uint32_t i;
 
-	RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_SLAVE(i) {
+	RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_WORKER(i) {
 		char name[NAME_MAX];
 		struct rte_ring *msgq_req, *msgq_rsp;
 		struct thread *t = &thread[i];
@@ -517,7 +524,7 @@ thread_main(void *arg __rte_unused)
 
 		/* Data Plane */
 		for (j = 0; j < t->n_pipelines; j++)
-			rte_swx_pipeline_run(t->p[j], 1000000);
+			rte_swx_pipeline_run(t->p[j], PIPELINE_INSTR_QUANTA);
 
 		/* Control Plane */
 		if ((i & 0xF) == 0) {