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From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v3 0/3] Thread safe
	rte_vhost_enqueue_burst().
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:16:14 +0800
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 09:09:04AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-03-18 16:00, Yuanhan Liu:
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 04:29:32PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > 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?
> > 
> > Huawei would like to do that, and I'm behind that. Let's do it.
> 
> I'm not sure to understand. What do you want to do exactly?

I was thinking we are on the same page :(

"do not want to pollute Rx/Tx with locks" == "remove lockless Rx/Tx, the
proposal from Huawei", right?

In another way, I'm behind the following patch from Huawei:

    http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/9740/

	--yliu