[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/2] eal: add asynchronous request API to DPDK IPC
Thomas Monjalon
thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Mar 27 18:33:54 CEST 2018
27/03/2018 15:59, Anatoly Burakov:
> Under the hood, we create a separate thread to deal with replies to
> asynchronous requests, that will just wait to be notified by the
> main thread, or woken up on a timer.
I really don't like that a library is creating a thread.
We don't even know where the thread is created (which core).
Can it be a rte_service? or in the interrupt thread?
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_version.map
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_version.map
> @@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ EXPERIMENTAL {
> rte_mp_action_unregister;
> rte_mp_sendmsg;
> rte_mp_request;
> + rte_mp_request_async;
So there is rte_mp_request and rte_mp_request_async?
You should rename rte_mp_request, I guess.
> rte_mp_reply;
> rte_service_attr_get;
> rte_service_attr_reset_all;
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