[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 1/4] rcu: add RCU library supporting QSBR mechanism

[Ruifeng Wang (Arm Technology China)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-bounces at dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Honnappa Nagarahalli
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2019 12:40
> To: konstantin.ananyev at intel.com; stephen at networkplumber.org;
> paulmck at linux.ibm.com; marko.kovacevic at intel.com; dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com>; Gavin Hu (Arm
> Technology China) <Gavin.Hu at arm.com>; Dharmik Thakkar
> <Dharmik.Thakkar at arm.com>; Malvika Gupta <Malvika.Gupta at arm.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 1/4] rcu: add RCU library supporting QSBR
> mechanism
> 
> Add RCU library supporting quiescent state based memory reclamation
> method.
> This library helps identify the quiescent state of the reader threads so that
> the writers can free the memory associated with the lock less data structures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ola Liljedahl <ola.liljedahl at arm.com>
> Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck at linux.ibm.com>
> ---

Compiled DPDK as both static library and shared library.
Ran UT on ARMv8 LS2088a DPAA2 platform, 3 to 8 cores were used, tests passed.

Tested-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang at arm.com>