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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v3 0/3] Thread safe
	rte_vhost_enqueue_burst().
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:29:32 +0100
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2016-02-24 14:47, Ilya Maximets:
> Implementation of rte_vhost_enqueue_burst() based on lockless ring-buffer
> algorithm and contains almost all to be thread-safe, but it's not.
> 
> This set adds required changes.
> 
> First patch in set is a standalone patch that fixes many times discussed
> issue with barriers on different architectures.
> 
> Second and third adds fixes to make rte_vhost_enqueue_burst thread safe.

My understanding is that we do not want to pollute Rx/Tx with locks.

Huawei, Yuanhan, Bruce, do you confirm?