[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/3] net/virtio: add packet injection method

[Yuanhan Liu]

On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 04:05:12AM -0800, Xiao Wang wrote:
> +	/*
> +	 * App management thread and virtio interrupt handler thread
> +	 * both can change the 'started' flag, this lock is meant to
> +	 * avoid such a contention.
> +	 */
> +	rte_spinlock_t state_lock;

Why not turning the "started" to atomic type, so that you don't need
the lock?

	--yliu
> +	struct rte_mbuf **inject_pkts;
>  
>  	struct virtqueue **vqs;
>  };