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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 0/8] Add stack library and new mempool
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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 17:42:00 +0200
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04/04/2019 12:01, Gage Eads:
> This patchset introduces a stack library, supporting both lock-based and
> lock-free stacks, and a lock-free stack mempool handler.
> 
> The lock-based stack code is derived from the existing stack mempool handler,
> and that handler is refactored to use the stack library.
> 
> The lock-free stack mempool handler is intended for usages where the rte
> ring's "non-preemptive" constraint is not acceptable; for example, if the
> application uses a mixture of pinned high-priority threads and multiplexed
> low-priority threads that share a mempool.
> 
> Note that the lock-free algorithm relies on a 128-bit compare-and-swap[1],
> so it is currently limited to the x86_64 platform.
[...]
> Gage Eads (8):
>   stack: introduce rte stack library
>   mempool/stack: convert mempool to use rte stack
>   test/stack: add stack test
>   test/stack: add stack perf test
>   stack: add lock-free stack implementation
>   stack: add C11 atomic implementation
>   test/stack: add lock-free stack tests
>   mempool/stack: add lock-free stack mempool handler

Applied (with a few minor changes), thanks for bringing this new library.