Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] Remove asynchronous IPC thread

2018-07-13 Thread Thomas Monjalon
> Anatoly Burakov (4): > eal/bsdapp: add interrupt thread > eal/bsdapp: add alarm support > ipc: remove IPC thread for async requests > doc: document IPC callback limitations > > Jianfeng Tan (3): > eal/linux: use glibc malloc in alarm > eal/linux: use glibc malloc in interrupt handlin

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] Remove asynchronous IPC thread

2018-06-26 Thread Anatoly Burakov
As previously discussed [1], IPC threads need to be removed and their workload moved to interrupt thread. However, due to upcoming changes for multiprocess hotplug, it was decided to leave one IPC thread in place for now to avoid deadlocks on memory allocation attempts [2]. FreeBSD did not have an