[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] Timer library changes

[Erik Gabriel Carrillo]

This patch series modifies the timer library in such a way that
structures that used to be statically allocated in a process's data
segment are now allocated in shared memory.  As these structures contain
lists of timers, new APIs are introduced that allow a caller to specify
the particular structure instance into which a timer should be inserted
or from which a timer should be removed.  This enables primary and
secondary processes to modify the same timer list, which enables some
multi-process use cases that were not previously possible; e.g. a
secondary process can start a timer whose expiration is detected in a
primary process running a new flavor of timer_manage().

The original library API is mostly unchanged, though implementations are
updated to call into newly added functions with a default structure
instance ID that provides the original behavior.  New functions are
introduced to enable applications to allocate structure instances to
house timer lists, and to reference them with an identifier when
starting and stopping timers, and finally, to manage the timer lists
referenced with an identifier.

My initial performance testing with the "timer_perf_autotest" test shows
no performance regression or improvement, and inspection of the
generated optimized code shows that the extra function call gets inlined
in the functions that now have an extra function call. 

Depends on: https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/48417/

Changes in v3:
 - remove C++ style comment in first patch in series (Stephen)

Changes in v2:
 - split these changes out into their own series
 - version the symbols where the existing ABI was updated, and
   provide alternate implementation with behavior equivalent to original
   behavior. Validated ABI compatibility with validate-abi.sh
 - refactor changes to simplify patches

Erik Gabriel Carrillo (2):
  timer: allow timer management in shared memory
  timer: add function to stop all timers in a list

 lib/librte_timer/Makefile              |   1 +
 lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.c           | 558 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.h           | 258 ++++++++++++++-
 lib/librte_timer/rte_timer_version.map |  23 ++
 4 files changed, 795 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)

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