[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/3] eal: add synchronous multi-process communication
Burakov, Anatoly
anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Thu Jan 25 13:19:23 CET 2018
>
> See above: it would be much more useful to return number of replies
> received, rather than number of messages sent, as that's the number we
> are most interested in. Otherwise, if we e.g. sent 5 messages but
> received 1 reply, you're essentially not telling the user how far can he
> index the reply pointer.
Apologies, just noticed that rte_mp_reply has nb_messages in it. So if
we are getting number of replies along with reply, this API should too
switch to 0/-1 on success/failure respectively, as the number of sent
messages also becomes meaningless to the user.
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Thanks,
Anatoly
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