From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@caviumnetworks.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:10:03 +0000 (+0530)
Subject: timer: allow reset on service cores
X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~1611
X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=351f463456f8;p=dpdk.git

timer: allow reset on service cores

The rte_timer_reset function should be able to register timers on service
lcores as they are EAL threads.

Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
---

diff --git a/lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.c b/lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.c
index 5ee0840800..ec86744e06 100644
--- a/lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.c
+++ b/lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.c
@@ -432,7 +432,8 @@ rte_timer_reset(struct rte_timer *tim, uint64_t ticks,
 	uint64_t period;
 
 	if (unlikely((tim_lcore != (unsigned)LCORE_ID_ANY) &&
-			!rte_lcore_is_enabled(tim_lcore)))
+			!(rte_lcore_is_enabled(tim_lcore) ||
+				rte_lcore_has_role(tim_lcore, ROLE_SERVICE))))
 		return -1;
 
 	if (type == PERIODICAL)