[dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC 4/4] doc: add note about rte_vhost_enqueue_burst thread safety.

Yuanhan Liu yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com
Fri Feb 19 08:10:46 CET 2016


On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 09:32:43AM +0300, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at samsung.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/prog_guide/thread_safety_dpdk_functions.rst | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/thread_safety_dpdk_functions.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/thread_safety_dpdk_functions.rst
> index 403e5fc..13a6c89 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/thread_safety_dpdk_functions.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/thread_safety_dpdk_functions.rst
> @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ then locking, or some other form of mutual exclusion, is necessary.
>  The ring library is based on a lockless ring-buffer algorithm that maintains its original design for thread safety.
>  Moreover, it provides high performance for either multi- or single-consumer/producer enqueue/dequeue operations.
>  The mempool library is based on the DPDK lockless ring library and therefore is also multi-thread safe.
> +rte_vhost_enqueue_burst() is also thread safe because based on lockless ring-buffer algorithm like the ring library.

FYI, Huawei meant to make rte_vhost_enqueue_burst() not be thread-safe,
to aligh with the usage of rte_eth_tx_burst().

	--yliu


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