[PATCH v14 0/7] Lcore variables

[Mattias Rönnblom]

On 2024-10-16 16:58, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:19:09 +0200
> Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com> wrote:
> 
>> This patch set introduces a new API <rte_lcore_var.h> for static
>> per-lcore id data allocation.
>>
>> Please refer to the <rte_lcore_var.h> API documentation for both a
>> rationale for this new API, and a comparison to the alternatives
>> available.
>>
>> The question on how to best allocate static per-lcore memory has been
>> up several times on the dev mailing list, for example in the thread on
>> "random: use per lcore state" RFC by Stephen Hemminger.
>>
>> Lcore variables are surely not the answer to all your per-lcore-data
>> needs, since it only allows for more-or-less static allocation. In the
>> author's opinion, it does however provide a reasonably simple and
>> clean and seemingly very much performant solution to a real problem.
>>
>> Mattias Rönnblom (7):
>>    eal: add static per-lcore memory allocation facility
>>    eal: add lcore variable functional tests
>>    eal: add lcore variable performance test
>>    random: keep PRNG state in lcore variable
>>    power: keep per-lcore state in lcore variable
>>    service: keep per-lcore state in lcore variable
>>    eal: keep per-lcore power intrinsics state in lcore variable
> 
> Still too wordy, would you mind if I have a try and summarizing and
> running the text through an editor tool?

I think you need to be a little more wordy here. What text? The cover 
text? That won't survive anyway.