Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] timer: inform periodic timers of multiple expiries

2017-04-28 Thread Bruce Richardson
+maintainer On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 02:25:38PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote: > if timer_manage is called much less frequently than the period of a > periodic timer, then timer expiries will be missed. For example, if a timer > has a period of 300us, but timer_manage is called every 1ms, then ther

Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] timer: inform periodic timers of multiple expiries

2017-04-28 Thread Bruce Richardson
I'd like some agreement soon on the approach to be taken to fix this issue, in case we need an ABI change notice in 17.05 - i.e. if we take the approach given in the patch below. Also, while the alternative solution of calling a function multiple times is not an ABI/API change, I view it as more p