[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/2] mempool/nb_stack: add non-blocking stack mempool

[Thomas Monjalon]

19/01/2019 01:00, Eads, Gage:
> > > I am wondering if it makes sense to decouple the NB stack data
> > > structure from mempool driver (similar to rte_ring)? I see that stack
> > > based mempool implements the stack data structure in the driver. But,
> > > NB stack might not be such a trivial data structure. It might be
> > > useful for the applications or other use cases as well.
> > >
> > 
> > I agree -- and you're not the first to suggest this :).
> > 
> > I'm going to defer that work to a later patchset; creating a new lib/ directory
> > requires tech board approval (IIRC), which would unnecessarily slow down this
> > mempool handler from getting merged.

You have time. This patch cannot go in 19.02.
You just need to be ready for 19.05-rc1 (more than 2 months).

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> modularizing nb_lifo can be deferred to the patchset that moves it to a separate library.

Please introduce it in the right place from the beginning.