[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/5] eventdev: add ring structure for events

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 10:45:47AM +0530, Jerin Jacob wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> > Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 14:36:18 +0100
> > From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > To: dev at dpdk.org
> > CC: olivier.matz at 6wind.com, jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com, Bruce
> >  Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH 3/5] eventdev: add ring structure for events
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> > 
> > Add in a new rte_event_ring structure type and functions to allow events to
> > be passed core to core. This is needed because the standard rte_ring type
> > only works on pointers, while for events, we want to copy the entire, 16B
> > events themselves - not just pointers to them. The code makes extensive use
> > of the functions already defined in rte_ring.h
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> 
> 
> Thomas,
> 
> Should this series applied through dpdk/master or dpdk-next-eventdev/master?
> 
> Bruce,
> __rte_always_inline macro is now part of master. Good to replace with force_inline.

Yes, good point. Thanks.

/Bruce