Hi Erik, A quick question. > -----Original Message----- > From: dev <dev-boun...@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Erik Gabriel Carrillo > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2019 10:14 AM > To: jerin.ja...@caviumnetworks.com > Cc: mattias.ronnb...@ericsson.com; pbhagavat...@caviumnetworks.com; > dev@dpdk.org > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/1] eventdev: add new software event timer > adapter > > This patch introduces a new version of the event timer adapter software PMD. > In the original design, timer event producer lcores in the primary and > secondary processes enqueued event timers into a ring, and a service core in > the primary process dequeued them and processed them further. To improve > performance, this version does away with the ring and lets lcores in both > primary and secondary processes insert timers directly into timer skiplist > data > structures; the service core directly accesses the lists as well, when > looking for > timers that have expired. How do you ensure concurrent access to the timer skiplist? Are you using any locks or is it a lock-free data structure?
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