[PATCH v2 0/5] New library: rte_distributor

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

This adds a new library to the Intel DPDK whereby a set of packets can be distributed one-at-a-time to a set of worker cores, with dynamic load balancing being done between those workers. Flows are identified by a tag within the mbuf (currently the RSS hash field, 32-bit value), which is used to ensure that no two packets of the same flow are processed in parallel, thereby preserving ordering.

Major changes in V2 set:
* Updates to take account of Neil's comments on original patch set
* Updates to fix issues highlighted by checkpatch.pl
* Additional handling in library for special case when process() is called with zero mbufs

Bruce Richardson (5):
  eal: add tailq for new distributor component
  distributor: new packet distributor library
  distributor: add distributor library to build
  distributor: add unit tests for distributor lib
  docs: add distributor lib to API docs

 app/test/Makefile                              |   2 +
 app/test/commands.c                            |   7 +-
 app/test/test.h                                |   2 +
 app/test/test_distributor.c                    | 595 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 app/test/test_distributor_perf.c               | 275 ++++++++++++
 config/common_bsdapp                           |   6 +
 config/common_linuxapp                         |   5 +
 doc/doxy-api-index.md                          |   1 +
 doc/doxy-api.conf                              |   1 +
 lib/Makefile                                   |   1 +
 lib/librte_distributor/Makefile                |  50 +++
 lib/librte_distributor/rte_distributor.c       | 487 ++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/librte_distributor/rte_distributor.h       | 186 ++++++++
 lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_tailq_elem.h |   2 +
 mk/rte.app.mk                                  |   4 +
 15 files changed, 1623 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 app/test/test_distributor.c
 create mode 100644 app/test/test_distributor_perf.c
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_distributor/Makefile
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_distributor/rte_distributor.c
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_distributor/rte_distributor.h

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