From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] eal: add asynchronous request API to DPDK IPC Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:15:54 +0200 Message-ID: <4713277.kqsDL9mI1H@xps> References: <7afa650068f6beda9c2c98159ba77d75a7a03979.1522502560.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org, jianfeng.tan@intel.com, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com To: Anatoly Burakov Return-path: Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 980D31C8EE for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2018 00:16:19 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <7afa650068f6beda9c2c98159ba77d75a7a03979.1522502560.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 31/03/2018 19:06, Anatoly Burakov: > This API is similar to the blocking API that is already present, > but reply will be received in a separate callback by the caller > (callback specified at the time of request, rather than registering > for it in advance). > > 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. > > Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov > Acked-by: Jianfeng Tan Applied, thanks You are expected to work on removing IPC threads during the next release cycle. Thanks in advance :)