[PATCH v5 1/2] vhost: support clear in-flight packets for async dequeue

[Maxime Coquelin]

On 6/9/22 19:34, Yuan Wang wrote:
> rte_vhost_clear_queue_thread_unsafe() supports to clear
> in-flight packets for async enqueue only. But after
> supporting async dequeue, this API should support async dequeue too.
> 
> This patch also adds the thread-safe version of this API,
> the difference between the two API is that thread safety uses lock.
> 
> These APIs maybe used to clean up packets in the async channel
> to prevent packet loss when the device state changes or
> when the device is destroyed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yuan Wang <yuanx.wang at intel.com>
> ---
>   doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst    |  8 ++-
>   doc/guides/rel_notes/release_22_07.rst |  4 ++
>   lib/vhost/rte_vhost_async.h            | 25 +++++++
>   lib/vhost/version.map                  |  1 +
>   lib/vhost/virtio_net.c                 | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   5 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>

Thanks,
Maxime