[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 20.08] telemetry: add upper limit on connections

[Power, Ciara]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
>Sent: Friday 10 July 2020 21:51
>To: Power, Ciara <ciara.power at intel.com>
>Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Laatz, Kevin <kevin.laatz at intel.com>; Stephen
>Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>; Richardson, Bruce
><bruce.richardson at intel.com>
>Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 20.08] telemetry: add upper limit on
>connections
>
>19/05/2020 02:07, Stephen Hemminger:
>> On Mon, 18 May 2020 17:12:32 +0100
>> Ciara Power <ciara.power at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> > This patch limits the number of client connections to the new
>> > telemetry socket. The limit is set at 10.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power at intel.com>
>>
>> The upper limit is fine, but using System V semaphores is not a good
>> way to do this. Please consider using some other atomic primitive.
>
>Why no reply?
>

Hi Thomas,

I had contacted Stephen offline for some detail on his suggestion. I thought I would have a patch sent soon after, but it took longer than expected, and I forgot to reply on list.
I have a patch in progress that will hopefully be sent up soon after internal review.

Thanks,
Ciara